Unclassified road crash in Oxford OX4 on 21 August 2015 at 21:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Oxford at 21:30 on Friday 21 August 2015. The 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2015
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74491, longitude -1.22978, in the OX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's, Oxford, OX4 1JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oxford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201543P197085
- Council area
- Oxford
- 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
- 20 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
- B
- Second road number
- 480
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 September 2018.
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the B480 in Oxford, 24 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018430300287
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 1 April 2014
3 m awayRef 201443P005044
Slight
Car crash on the B480 in Oxford, 23 November 2014
5 m awayRef 201443P291114
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the B480 in Oxford, 25 May 2013
5 m awayRef 201343P292053
Slight
Car crash on the B480 in Oxford, 26 June 2017
5 m awayRef 2017430197337
Slight
Car crash on the B480 in Oxford, 21 September 1980
6 m awayRef 198043H051090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201543P197085 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oxford road accident statistics for 2015.