Unclassified road crash in the Vale of White Horse OX14 on 21 September 2014 at 11:20 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus crashed on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse at 11:20 on Sunday 21 September 2014. A 50-year-old female passenger and an 80-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2014
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67688, longitude -1.26912, in the OX14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abingdon-on-Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abingdon Abbey Northcourt, Vale of White Horse, OX14 2HF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443P201094
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 25 February 1986
7 m awayRef 198643F067026
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 27 March 1986
7 m awayRef 198643F115036
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 17 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025430299531
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 28 July 1990
43 m awayRef 199043F106070
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 17 October 2007
43 m awayRef 200743P188107
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 18 October 1983
48 m awayRef 198343H042103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 201443P201094 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 2014.