A4165 crash in Oxford on 15 December 2000 at 08:30 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A taxi and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4165 in Oxford at 08:30 on Friday 15 December 2000. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2000
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78599, longitude -1.26988, in the OX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200043P277120
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4165
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 March 1980.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 20 March 1980
10 m awayRef 198043H062030
Serious
Car crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 6 February 1984
10 m awayRef 198443H030024
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 24 February 2012
10 m awayRef 201243P260022
Serious
Bus crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 30 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198443H089064
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 3 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200243P044102
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A4165 in Oxford, 10 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200643P128086
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 200043P277120 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 2000.