B4493 crash in South Oxfordshire on 3 March 2016 at 13:25 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire at 13:25 on Thursday 3 March 2016. The 28-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61007, longitude -1.25289, in the OX11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Didcot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Didcot West, South Oxfordshire, OX11 8RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201643P169036
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4493
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2011.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire, 8 April 2011
4 m awayRef 201143P094041
Slight
Car crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire, 21 November 2003
4 m awayRef 200343P362113
Serious
Car crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire, 23 November 1979
9 m awayRef 197943F058119
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire, 30 December 2018
10 m awayRef 2018430395670
Slight
Car crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire, 9 November 2025
11 m awayRef 2025430573809
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B4493 in South Oxfordshire, 19 September 1990
13 m awayRef 199043F075090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 201643P169036 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2016.