A4074 crash in South Oxfordshire on 31 March 2018 at 10:00 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire at 10:00 on Saturday 31 March 2018. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2018
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56114, longitude -1.099, in the OX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430107868
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4074
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 August 2022.
Serious
Renault Trucks crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire, 11 August 2022
2 m awayRef 2022430357715
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire, 7 March 2000
4 m awayRef 200043P097030
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire, 6 November 2007
4 m awayRef 200743P053117
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire, 4 December 2004
4 m awayRef 200443P093124
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire, 19 July 2013
6 m awayRef 201343P184073
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4074 in South Oxfordshire, 2 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025430613202
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2018430107868 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.