A4260 crash in Cherwell on 23 December 2017 at 09:19 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the A4260 in Cherwell at 09:19 on Saturday 23 December 2017. The 53-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 09:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05253, longitude -1.33774, in the OX16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Banbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Banbury Calthorpe and Easington, Cherwell, OX16 9FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430002526
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4260
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1998.
Slight
Ford crash on the A4260 in Cherwell, 26 December 1998
5 m awayRef 199843P451128
Fatal
Car crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 22 March 1981
5 m awayRef 198143G048031
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 29 October 1980
5 m awayRef 198043G074100
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 14 September 1988
5 m awayRef 198843B048098
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 1 October 1987
5 m awayRef 198743B009107
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A4260 in Cherwell, 22 July 1999
5 m awayRef 199943P310079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017430002526 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 2017.