Unclassified road crash in South Oxfordshire OX10 on 20 July 2019 at 22:49 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in South Oxfordshire at 22:49 on Saturday 20 July 2019. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2019
- Saturday, 22:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62409, longitude -1.09629, in the OX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Benson.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019430222572
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2007.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in South Oxfordshire, 27 February 2007
6 m awayRef 200743P392027
Serious
Car crash on a C road in South Oxfordshire, 22 April 1980
15 m awayRef 198043F041040
Slight
Van crash on a C road in South Oxfordshire, 4 May 1988
15 m awayRef 198843F013058
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in South Oxfordshire, 28 August 1985
17 m awayRef 198543F080085
Slight
Honda HR-V crash on an unclassified road in South Oxfordshire, 11 May 2007
26 m awayRef 200743P110057
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Oxfordshire, 30 May 2011
75 m awayRef 201143P271051
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2019430222572 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 2019.