Unclassified road crash in Cherwell OX15 on 1 January 2016 at 04:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Cherwell at 04:30 on Friday 1 January 2016. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2016
- Friday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99801, longitude -1.47803, in the OX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201643P004016
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1994.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 31 October 1994
58 m awayRef 199443P143104
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 25 June 1997
71 m awayRef 199743P187067
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 4 May 1981
107 m awayRef 198143G012051
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 9 September 1983
120 m awayRef 198343G029093
Slight
BMW K 100 crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 10 July 1991
131 m awayRef 199143F007231
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 11 January 2022
185 m awayRef 2022430014673
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 201643P004016 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 2016.