B481 crash in South Oxfordshire on 6 October 2014 at 05:41 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B481 in South Oxfordshire at 05:41 on Monday 6 October 2014. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2014
- Monday, 05:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52559, longitude -0.9833, in the RG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sonning Common. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodcote & Rotherfield, South Oxfordshire, RG9 5ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443P098104
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 481
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2020.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 11 May 2020
13 m awayRef 2020430203056
Slight
Car crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 21 December 1987
16 m awayRef 198743E126127
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 28 September 1995
23 m awayRef 199543P103095
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 14 June 1998
24 m awayRef 199843P184068
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 23 July 2007
25 m awayRef 200743P420077
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 21 December 2013
28 m awayRef 201343P198123
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201443P098104 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2014.