A418 crash in South Oxfordshire on 4 August 2025 at 06:20 involving a BMW IX
A car and a BMW IX were involved in a crash on the A418 in South Oxfordshire at 06:20 on Monday 4 August 2025. The 43-year-old male driver of the BMW IX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2025
- Monday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW IX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73956, longitude -1.0699, in the OX9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haseley Brook, South Oxfordshire, OX9 2JY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025430394205
- 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
- 418
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- 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, 17 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 August 2020.
Fatal
Toyota Avensis crash on the A418 in South Oxfordshire, 20 August 2020
17 m awayRef 2020430260560
Serious
Car crash on the A418 in South Oxfordshire, 23 March 1979
34 m awayRef 197943A045039
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A418 in South Oxfordshire, 27 May 1991
35 m awayRef 199143D005241
Slight
Volvo crash on the A418 in South Oxfordshire, 30 July 1998
41 m awayRef 199843P423078
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A415 in South Oxfordshire, 8 March 2011
70 m awayRef 201143P103031
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A418 in South Oxfordshire, 10 June 2003
70 m awayRef 200343P089063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,435 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: BMW IX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW IX)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025430394205 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 2025.