Serious unclassified road crash in West Oxfordshire OX29 on 29 December 2017 at 11:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire at 11:05 on Friday 29 December 2017. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 2017
- Friday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78707, longitude -1.37114, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430009121
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 15 February 1979
75 m awayRef 197943G033029
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 28 July 2021
80 m awayRef 2021430337215
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 22 May 2012
82 m awayRef 201243P211052
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 11 September 1989
82 m awayRef 198943F035099
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 18 December 1981
83 m awayRef 198143G036121
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A40 in West Oxfordshire, 5 July 2017
85 m awayRef 2017430207451
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 2017430009121 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.