B4437 crash in West Oxfordshire on 24 April 2002 at 18:20 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire at 18:20 on Wednesday 24 April 2002. The 41-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2002
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87294, longitude -1.5154, in the OX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200243P316042
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4437
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 143 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2008.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 29 January 2008
143 m awayRef 200843P314018
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 9 March 2015
148 m awayRef 201543P133035
Serious
Dacia Duster crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 19 March 2023
149 m awayRef 2023430122191
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 11 June 2001
152 m awayRef 200143P156061
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 26 September 2011
307 m awayRef 201143P261091
Fatal
Car crash on the B4437 in West Oxfordshire, 30 December 1994
314 m awayRef 199443H121124
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 200243P316042 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 2002.