A4165 crash in Oxford on 24 May 1979 at 08:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4165 in Oxford at 08:35 on Thursday 24 May 1979. The 10-year-old female cyclist and the 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1979
- Thursday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77854, longitude -1.26536, in the OX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford.
Map of where the crash happened in Oxford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943H055059
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4165
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1997.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 15 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199743P113087
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 15 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200243P173082
Slight
Bus crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 5 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198643B041086
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 16 May 2013
1 m awayRef 201343P294053
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 10 May 2024
4 m awayRef 2024430218261
Slight
Car crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 21 February 2014
7 m awayRef 201443P203024
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 10, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 197943H055059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oxford road accident statistics for 1979.