A34 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 20 January 1990 at 12:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse at 12:15 on Saturday 20 January 1990. The 58-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1990
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72634, longitude -1.25708, in the OX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kennington.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199043F062010
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 24 July 1997
30 m awayRef 199743P164077
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 23 January 2014
30 m awayRef 201443P360014
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 5 May 2017
31 m awayRef 2017430137103
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 12 February 1988
32 m awayRef 198843F030028
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 11 August 2025
34 m awayRef 2025430408245
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A34 in the Vale of White Horse, 18 July 2014
36 m awayRef 201443P171074
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, 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 199043F062010 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.