Unclassified road crash in West Oxfordshire OX29 on 20 December 2022 at 23:59 involving a Volvo XC40
A Volvo XC40 crashed on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire at 23:59 on Tuesday 20 December 2022. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2022
- Tuesday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo XC40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79379, longitude -1.54701, in the OX29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster Lovell.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022430570697
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1998.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 28 April 1998
8 m awayRef 199843P162048
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 14 December 1983
11 m awayRef 198343G045123
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 2 December 2015
13 m awayRef 201543P008125
Serious
Fiat Fiorino crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 25 August 2005
20 m awayRef 200543P365085
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 1 October 2009
25 m awayRef 200943P021109
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Oxfordshire, 20 August 1979
78 m awayRef 197943G052089
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo XC40)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022430570697 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2022.