A34 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 14 January 2020 at 07:30 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van, a Volkswagen Golf and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse at 07:30 on Tuesday 14 January 2020. The 24-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2020
- Tuesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes Sprinter and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66898, longitude -1.31078, in the OX14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abingdon Fitzharris, Vale of White Horse, OX14 1TZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020430014356
- 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
- 34
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2005.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 June 2005
11 m awayRef 200543P305065
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 30 January 2020
11 m awayRef 2020430034505
Slight
Lorry crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 30 August 1983
14 m awayRef 198343H067083
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 6 March 1991
17 m awayRef 199143Q001771
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 April 1996
17 m awayRef 199643U073046
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 5 August 2019
17 m awayRef 2019430240731
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2020430014356 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 2020.