A361 crash in Cherwell on 15 October 2013 at 15:52 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a car and a Porsche 911 were involved in a crash on the A361 in Cherwell at 15:52 on Tuesday 15 October 2013. An 86-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and the 84-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2013
- Tuesday, 15:52
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10181, longitude -1.29924, in the OX17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cropredy, Sibfords and Wroxton, Cherwell, OX17 1AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201343P185103
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 8 March 1987
6 m awayRef 198743B029037
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 19 May 2006
8 m awayRef 200643P221056
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 1 January 2014
53 m awayRef 201443P019014
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 24 April 1999
62 m awayRef 199943P320049
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 9 December 2002
79 m awayRef 200243P146122
Fatal
Car crash on the A361 in Cherwell, 18 August 1989
91 m awayRef 198943B132089
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,735 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Porsche 911
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201343P185103 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 2013.