C road crash in Oxford OX3 on 7 October 1981 at 06:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Oxford at 06:30 on Wednesday 7 October 1981. The 38-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 1981
- Wednesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76799, longitude -1.19177, in the OX3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Oxford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198143H034101
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 July 1992.
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Oxford, 14 July 1992
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Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Oxford, 24 October 1992
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Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 12 January 2006
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 38, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198143H034101 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 1981.