M40 crash in Cherwell on 15 July 2017 at 06:04 involving a car
A car crashed on the M40 in Cherwell at 06:04 on Saturday 15 July 2017. The 47-year-old female driver, a 30-year-old female passenger and a 31-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2017
- Saturday, 06:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87776, longitude -1.20069, in the OX25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fringford and Heyfords, Cherwell, OX26 1TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430226167
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 February 2020.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the M40 in Cherwell, 29 February 2020
3 m awayRef 2020430070283
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the M40 in Cherwell, 22 October 2019
4 m awayRef 2019430338898
Fatal
Nissan Qashqai crash on the M40 in Cherwell, 18 May 2023
4 m awayRef 2023430217234
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the M40 in Cherwell, 1 December 2015
6 m awayRef 201543P072125
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M40 in Cherwell, 29 October 2015
6 m awayRef 201543P335105
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M40 in Cherwell, 5 December 2024
7 m awayRef 2024430589752
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017430226167 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.