Serious A420 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 4 December 2025 at 17:38 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro
A Vauxhall Vivaro and a Peugeot 107 were involved in a crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse at 17:38 on Thursday 4 December 2025. The 59-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vivaro was seriously injured and the 26-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 107 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vivaro and Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67768, longitude -1.44356, in the OX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025430617716
- 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
- 420
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 12 April 2014.
Fatal
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 12 April 2014
2 m awayRef 201443P072044
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 14 September 2021
2 m awayRef 2021430414404
Serious
Dacia Sandero crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 December 2019
2 m awayRef 2019430396318
Serious
Mercedes B Class crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 29 May 2018
3 m awayRef 2018430173135
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 14 June 2017
4 m awayRef 2017430179536
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse, 30 November 1998
4 m awayRef 199843P532118
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025430617716 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 2025.