Serious B481 crash in South Oxfordshire on 12 March 1986 at 13:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire at 13:40 on Wednesday 12 March 1986. The 24-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, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Mar 1986
- Wednesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51851, longitude -0.97741, in the RG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sonning Common.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198643E040036
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 481
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1996.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 17 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199643P088086
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 3 December 1982
At the same spotRef 198243E018122
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 24 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199943P319049
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 30 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199143M009521
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 23 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201243P212042
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the B481 in South Oxfordshire, 9 May 2015
3 m awayRef 201543P084055
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, 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 198643E040036 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 1986.