Serious A415 crash in West Oxfordshire on 18 June 1986 at 17:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire at 17:50 on Wednesday 18 June 1986. The 23-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1986
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78524, longitude -1.49648, in the OX28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Witney.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198643F067066
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 415
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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 8 September 2003.
Slight
Ford Courier crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire, 8 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200343P092093
Serious
Peugeot 505 crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire, 4 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199243U007012
Slight
Car crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire, 4 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198643F029106
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire, 15 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199543U062095
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire, 26 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201243P228032
Slight
Car crash on the A415 in West Oxfordshire, 2 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025430215021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 23, 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 198643F067066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 1986.