Serious unclassified road crash in Cherwell OX16 on 18 March 2017 at 13:57 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cherwell at 13:57 on Saturday 18 March 2017. A 44-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
- 18 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 13:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06177, longitude -1.33011, in the OX16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Banbury Cross and Neithrop, Cherwell, OX16 5JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430089831
- Council area
- Cherwell
- 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
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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%
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The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2025.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 18 December 2006
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017430089831 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.