Highways officers at Oxfordshire County Council will review road safety in a village outside Oxford following a fatal crash at the weekend.

Susan Fenton, 32, from Oxford, was the front seat passenger in a stolen red Honda Prelude that smashed into a wall in Wytham village, shortly before 2pm on Saturday.

The car was travelling from the Wolvercote direction along Godstow Road, before it hit the stone wall on the sharp left-hand bend in the centre of the village.

The driver, a 28-year-old man, remained in hospital with serious injuries. He has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle taking.

In August last year, Steph Peterson, 27, suffered a broken neck after the Vauxhall Astra she was travelling in hit the same wall in exactly the same place, just before the bend.

Yesterday, Geoff Barrell, principal engineer for road safety and traffic engineering at the county council, said the two crashes were the only accidents at that location during the past 10 years.

Mr Barrell said: "That suggests we have got the amount of signage in the village right, but we will send a highway inspector to Wytham to see if any more signs are necessary.

"These are unusual circumstances but if we think the number of signs is inadequate we will add one."

In December 2004, a 20mph zone and traffic calming humps were installed in the village.

Wytham parish clerk Kathy Day has also asked the county council to look at safety measures.

She said: "We would like to be reassured that the signage and the traffic calming is correct following this latest dreadful accident.

"Sometimes the circumstances of these accidents are very much beyond anyone's control.

"Some people do drive too fast, and we do have a huge volume of traffic at peak times when people are going to and from work."

Floral tributes have been left at the crash site. One card read: "Sue: Forever in our minds, love Stu and Nat", while another said: "With love, Christine."

Jamie Flarry, duty manager at the White Hart pub, said people going to a christening reception had arrived half an hour before the crash.

"If they had been walking from the church to the pub when the car drove through it could have been even more serious," he said.

The road was closed for more than three hours while accident investigators examined the scene. The car had been reported stolen from Oxford.

Anyone who witnessed the crash has been asked to call Pc Martin Mann at Abingdon roads policing department on 08458 505505.

The driver in last year's crash, Guy Packer, 22, was twice the legal drink driving limit when police began to follow his car at the Wolvercote roundabout in Oxford. Earlier this month, he was jailed 20 months for dangerous driving and banned from driving for five years.