B4477 crash in West Oxfordshire on 5 November 2015 at 19:10 involving a BMW M3
A BMW M3 and a Land Rover Range Rover were involved in a crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire at 19:10 on Thursday 5 November 2015. The 45-year-old female driver of the BMW M3 and the 29-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Range Rover were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW M3 and Land Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78171, longitude -1.55622, in the OX29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brize Norton and Shilton, West Oxfordshire, OX29 0SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201543P037115
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4477
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a fatal crash on 29 March 2008.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 29 March 2008
1 m awayRef 200843P350038
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 27 October 2011
1 m awayRef 201143P287101
Fatal
Honda CBF 125 crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 19 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025430533997
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 9 September 2016
11 m awayRef 2016430265025
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 4 May 2018
12 m awayRef 2018430134487
Slight
Proton Wira crash on the B4477 in West Oxfordshire, 31 March 2006
15 m awayRef 200643P406036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW M3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover)
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 201543P037115 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2015.