NEW figures have revealed 90 per cent of crashes on Oxfordshire's roads were due to just four factors.
Here we look back at some of the terrible consequences of the so-called 'fatal four' in or near the county.
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All of these incidents were due to one, or a combination of; not wearing a seatbelt, speeding, distraction and drink/drug driving.
- In January, an inquest heard how Cholsey chef Tom Nelson was seen speeding ‘like a bat out of hell’ along the A41 near Bicester just seconds before he died after losing control and crashing into a tree on August 10 last year.
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- Another inquest heard in August how Rajiv Mathew was speeding at more than 20mph over the limit and on a conference call on the A4260 near Deddington when he crashed into the oncoming car of 86-year-old David Wotherspoon, killing them both.
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- Liberty Baker, 14, was killed on the way to school in Witney in 2014 when a car mounted the pavement. Driver Robert Blackwell received a text message moments before his car struck The Henry Box School pupil and had been smoking cannabis the day before.
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- In 2015, Gavin Roberts, 28, was killed on the A34 at East Ilsley when the car of Lewis Stratford, of Field Avenue, Blackbird Leys, ploughed into his BMW. Stratford, who was jailed for three years in March 2017, admitted to making phone calls to his girlfriend at the time of the crash.
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- In 2016, lorry driver Tomasz Kroker, distracted by his phone, killed a woman and three children when he ploughed into their car on the A34 at East Ilsley.
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- Ryan Almond crashed his black Vauxhall Astra into the front of Ludivine Parmentier’s house in Mill Street, Wantage, at 12.30pm on Valentine’s Day in 2015. He was found to be speeding at the time.
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