A4144 crash in Oxford on 26 March 2015 at 07:09 involving a Toyota Prius taxi
A Toyota Prius taxi and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A4144 in Oxford at 07:09 on Thursday 26 March 2015. A 33-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Toyota Prius taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2015
- Thursday, 07:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75268, longitude -1.26724, in the OX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carfax & Jericho, Oxford, OX1 3HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oxford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201543P273035
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4144
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 420
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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 slight injury crash on 14 October 2025.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 14 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025430525905
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4144 in Oxford, 13 October 2009
2 m awayRef 200943P137109
Slight
Car crash on the A4144 in Oxford, 14 April 2008
2 m awayRef 200843P137048
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A4144 in Oxford, 23 February 2010
2 m awayRef 201043P229020
Slight
Bus crash on the A420 in Oxford, 19 June 2005
2 m awayRef 200543P189065
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A420 in Oxford, 20 August 1999
2 m awayRef 199943P286089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201543P273035 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.