Serious unclassified road crash in Cherwell OX25 on 15 September 1979 at 16:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell at 16:10 on Saturday 15 September 1979. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92841, longitude -1.26262, in the OX25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943G035099
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1983.
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 9 June 1983
50 m awayRef 198343G019063
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 21 December 1986
58 m awayRef 198643B104126
Slight
Audi C crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 20 March 2002
58 m awayRef 200243P339032
Slight
Chevrolet Spark crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 27 April 2016
71 m awayRef 201643P286046
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 12 February 1980
78 m awayRef 198043G020020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cherwell, 2 October 1980
92 m awayRef 198043G005100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 197943G035099 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 1979.