Serious A329 crash in South Oxfordshire on 11 September 1982 at 03:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A329 in South Oxfordshire at 03:20 on Saturday 11 September 1982. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Sep 1982
- Saturday, 03:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57044, longitude -1.14073, in the OX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198243F015092
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 329
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A329 in South Oxfordshire, 18 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199243U043072
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A329 in South Oxfordshire, 6 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199043F028120
Slight
Car crash on the A329 in South Oxfordshire, 13 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198843F048108
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A329 in South Oxfordshire, 25 August 2017
7 m awayRef 2017430279999
Slight
Car crash on the A329 in South Oxfordshire, 14 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198943F054089
Serious
Car crash on the A329 in South Oxfordshire, 28 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198843F097088
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198243F015092 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 1982.