A338 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 11 May 2017 at 10:50 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Jaguar XJ Series were involved in a crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse at 10:50 on Thursday 11 May 2017. The 49-year-old male driver of the Renault Laguna and a 63-year-old female passenger in the Jaguar XJ Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2017
- Thursday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Jaguar XJ Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61856, longitude -1.409, in the OX12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grove.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430144440
- 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
- 338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse, 8 December 1983
4 m awayRef 198343F040123
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse, 12 January 1986
8 m awayRef 198643F033016
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse, 11 December 1988
8 m awayRef 198843F088128
Serious
Car crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse, 7 July 1990
8 m awayRef 199043F017070
Serious
Car crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse, 29 September 1981
8 m awayRef 198143F064091
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A338 in the Vale of White Horse, 21 March 1991
8 m awayRef 199143O002221
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017430144440 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.