What roads are the most dangerous in Oxfordshire?

Price comparison site USwitch compiled data from the Department for Transport, looking at all of the casualties on the roads over the last five years.

In the county there were 290 crashes involving somebody on a bike being killed or seriously injured.  

But what exactly are the most dangerous roads in Oxfordshire?  

Here we break down the data about casualties over the last five years:

• Total: 1,503
• Per 100,000 people: 217.30

Casualties by road user:

• Involving pedestrians: 199
• involving cars, taxis and minibus: 614
• involving cyclists: 290
• involving motorbikes: 329

Casualties by road type:

• On a one way street: 5
• On a single carriageway: 1,195
• On a dual carriageway: 203
• At a staggered junction: 366
• At a roundabout or mini roundabout: 120
• On a private drive or entrance: 77

And the ages of people involved:

• Under 16: 80
• 16-24: 281
• 24-55: 730
• 55+: 384

The government data refers to a ‘casualty’ as somebody who has died or been seriously injured and is recorded at the roadside.

Emergency services have dealt with at least five serious road traffic collisions on Oxfordshire roads this week.

Firefighters said it had been an ‘extremely busy’ time ahead of National Road Safety week – warning drivers about the dangers of using phones and getting distracted behind the wheel.

Serious crashes this week: 

• Two people who had to be cut from their cars after 'another' major crash near the A40 on Friday were left with broken femurs. South Central Ambulance Service said it had got the call at around 9am on Friday reporting a serious crash between a black Volkswagen Tiguan and a white BMW on Lower Road, near Church Hanborough.
• On Saturday two people died in a fatal crash between a car and a bus. A black Vauxhall Insignia was travelling in the direction of Bicester on the A4421 when it collided with a bus going in the opposite direction.
•  That night a man died after his BMW black 1 Series overturned in a field on Chilton Road in West Hagbourne.
• On Monday a mini crashed into a HGV on the M40 after one of its tyres blew out. 
• Firefighters had to cut the roof off a car after a serious crash in Marston when one of the drivers was left with 'severe injuries'