Unclassified road crash in West Oxfordshire OX29 on 19 December 2017 at 08:18 involving a Citroen Berlingo van
A Citroen Berlingo van and a Citroen DS3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire at 08:18 on Tuesday 19 December 2017. The 18-year-old male driver of the Citroen DS3 and the 25-year-old male driver of the Citroen Berlingo van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 08:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Citroen DS3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78142, longitude -1.37712, in the OX29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eynsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eynsham and Cassington, West Oxfordshire, OX29 4NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430004176
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen DS3)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017430004176 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 2017.