Serious B4508 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 13 July 1990 at 17:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse at 17:20 on Friday 13 July 1990. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jul 1990
- Friday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62507, longitude -1.57785, in the SN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199043F050070
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4508
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 23 June 1979
22 m awayRef 197943F049069
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 18 May 1991
32 m awayRef 199143Q003741
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 21 March 1985
45 m awayRef 198543F035035
Slight
Car crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 29 April 2009
193 m awayRef 200943P288049
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 6 September 2024
205 m awayRef 2024430428331
Slight
Car crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 7 October 1990
210 m awayRef 199043F027100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 199043F050070 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 1990.