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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Thame, Oxford, Wallingford, Abingdon.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 96 collisions are on record, 4 of them fatal. That figure follows how built-up the area is, so it is shown for context and is not what the ranking uses.
Department for Transport STATS19 police collision records on the M40 itself, within 2 miles of J8. This is the free summary — the full breakdown by severity, weather, road surface, time of day and individual record is in the blackspot report.
📊 Full collision analysis for M40 J8 → 9 of 15 junctions on the M40 · see where it ranks nationallyM40 J8 is at Oxford & Wheatley. National Highways signs it as Oxford. The nearest town is Thame.
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Police STATS19 records show 14 collisions on the M40 within 2 miles of J8, including 1 fatal and 3 serious. Counting every road in the area, 96 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 370 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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