{"id":347937,"date":"2026-01-02T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347937\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:51:07","slug":"police-statement-after-oxford-city-centre-crash-closes-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347937\/","title":{"rendered":"Police statement after Oxford city centre crash closes road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The incident occurred earlier this morning (Friday, January 2) as a crash took place in the centre of the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, the A420 High Street has been closed in both directions by emergency services between The Plain and Longwall Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25734487.major-city-road-closed-directions-crash\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Major city road closed in both directions after crash<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Help support trusted local news\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sign up for a digital subscription now:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/subscribe\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a digital subscriber you will get:\u00a0\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\n<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access to the\u00a0Oxford\u00a0Mail website\u00a0\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n<p>  Advert-light access\u00a0\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n<p>  Reader rewards\u00a0\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n<p>  Full access to our app<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emergency services are currently in attendance, with Thames Valley Police officers among those at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The force has provided an update on the situation and said in a statement: &#8220;The High Street is currently closed in both directions following a serious injury road <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/li\/traffic.in.Oxford\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic<\/a> collision at around 2.40am today (2\/1) in Oxford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Officers are currently at the scene, and the road remains closed between Iffley Road and The Plain and is likely to remain shut for some time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Please avoid the area at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident occurred earlier this morning (Friday, January 2) as a crash took place in the centre of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-347937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}