A361 crash in West Oxfordshire on 18 April 2015 at 22:59 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire at 22:59 on Saturday 18 April 2015. The 24-year-old male driver of the Citroen C3, the 51-year-old female driver of the Toyota Corolla and a 75-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Corolla were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2015
- Saturday, 22:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81294, longitude -1.63245, in the OX18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burford, West Oxfordshire, OX18 4QY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201543P300045
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 March 1993.
Serious
Volvo crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 11 March 1993
7 m awayRef 199343U033033
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 17 November 2007
7 m awayRef 200743P209117
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 19 June 2001
7 m awayRef 200143P265061
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 30 July 2009
21 m awayRef 200943P329079
Serious
Honda CBF crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 25 April 2025
65 m awayRef 2025430200663
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A361 in West Oxfordshire, 24 May 1997
74 m awayRef 199743P181057
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
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
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 201543P300045 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.