Serious A415 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 24 December 2017 at 02:10 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse at 02:10 on Sunday 24 December 2017. The 54-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66835, longitude -1.31072, in the OX14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abingdon Fitzharris, Vale of White Horse, OX14 1TZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430004258
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 415
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 34
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2014.
Slight
Honda crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 1 September 2014
4 m awayRef 201443P032094
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 26 February 1987
6 m awayRef 198743F076027
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 29 July 2013
20 m awayRef 201343P321073
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 4 November 2023
26 m awayRef 2023430496153
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 17 June 2010
35 m awayRef 201043P157060
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A415 in the Vale of White Horse, 5 August 2000
36 m awayRef 200043P045080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 2017430004258 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 2017.