B4437 crash in West Oxfordshire on 7 May 2017 at 12:39 involving a Lexus NX300
A Lexus NX300 and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire at 12:39 on Sunday 7 May 2017. The 53-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2017
- Sunday, 12:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus NX300 and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84904, longitude -1.58198, in the OX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430134395
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4437
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 2 July 2019.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 2 July 2019
1 m awayRef 2019430200396
Slight
Car crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 13 June 1981
2 m awayRef 198143G025061
Slight
Nissan NV200 crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 31 May 2017
2 m awayRef 2017430166080
Slight
Car crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 23 October 1989
2 m awayRef 198943B114109
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 4 October 1992
2 m awayRef 199243P009102
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 15 July 1993
2 m awayRef 199343P071073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus NX300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 2017430134395 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.