C road crash in Oxford OX1 on 1 July 1988 at 16:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Oxford at 16:15 on Friday 1 July 1988. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 1 Jul 1988
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75499, longitude -1.25169, in the OX1 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
- 198843B001078
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 1988.
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Oxford, 19 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198843B056088
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Oxford, 3 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199043B011070
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Oxford, 28 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198443H078024
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Oxford, 22 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198543H064035
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 14 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019430331266
Slight
E-scooter crash on an unclassified road in Oxford, 22 October 2025
1 m awayRef 2025430539172
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198843B001078 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 1988.