B4009 crash in South Oxfordshire on 17 March 2018 at 16:00 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire at 16:00 on Saturday 17 March 2018. The 30-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2018
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70219, longitude -0.91004, in the OX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chinnor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chinnor, South Oxfordshire, OX39 4QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430086856
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4009
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 May 2000.
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 4 May 2000
9 m awayRef 200043P057050
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 22 April 2012
15 m awayRef 201243P190042
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 12 September 1981
19 m awayRef 198143A023091
Slight
Car crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 7 November 1984
31 m awayRef 198443A025114
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 28 June 2012
38 m awayRef 201243P294062
Slight
Car crash on the B4009 in South Oxfordshire, 25 December 1984
38 m awayRef 198443A156124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018430086856 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2018.