One person died and three were seriously injured in road accidents in the county yesterday.

Motorists faced tailbacks on the A34 yesterdayafter two young men were thrown from their car in a two-vehicle crash.

Three men, all believed to be in their mid-twenties, were taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital with serious injuries.

One person died after a single vehicle accident in south Oxfordshire yesterday afternoon.

Oxfordshire ambulance service was called to the scene in Coxwell Road, Faringdon, at 4.58pm.

A spokesman said one ambulance and two community responders attended the incident.

He said one patient was taken to Swindon's Great Western Hospital with non-life threatening injuries while the other was pronounced dead at the scene.

An air ambulance, two road ambulances and a paramedic were called to the scene of the A34 smash, which happened between the Marcham and Hinksey Hill interchanges just after 2pm.

A spokesman for Oxfordshire ambulance service said one of the victims had open fractures to his leg and was suffering neck pain.

She added the second had facial injuries as well as back and neck pain.

And she said the third, who was taken to hospital by air ambulance, had neck and back pain and head injuries.

A ambulance spokesman said the northbound carriageway of the A34 was shut while paramedics attended the scene, but one lane was re- opened soon after.

The collision is the latest in a string of accidents on the A34 through Oxfordshire.

There are regular calls for the road to be turned into a motorway in a bid to improve safety - in August, a family of four were killed in a collision involving their car, a car transporter and a lorry.

Oxford East MP Andrew Smith, pictured, led calls to cut the carnage on the busy route.

The Haulage Association has also called for the road to be widened to three lanes.

But people living in Botley and North Hinksey say it would be difficult to turn the route into a motorway because of the number of houses that would need to be demolished.