A41 crash in Cherwell on 9 December 2024 at 06:15 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 and a Volvo XC60 were involved in a crash on the A41 in Cherwell at 06:15 on Monday 9 December 2024. The 30-year-old male driver of the Volvo XC60 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Monday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 308 and Volvo XC60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88498, longitude -1.17122, in the OX25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fringford and Heyfords, Cherwell, OX25 2BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024430595752
- Council area
- Cherwell
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 3 November 2009
27 m awayRef 200943P015119
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 21 November 2009
27 m awayRef 200943P266119
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 26 February 2007
34 m awayRef 200743P388027
Fatal
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A41 in Cherwell, 10 April 1998
52 m awayRef 199843P038048
Serious
Car crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 17 November 1980
65 m awayRef 198043G035110
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 12 January 1980
97 m awayRef 198043G017010
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volvo XC60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo XC60)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024430595752 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 2024.