B478 crash in South Oxfordshire on 20 April 2002 at 11:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Honda VTR1000F motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire at 11:00 on Saturday 20 April 2002. The 51-year-old male rider of the Honda VTR1000F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2002
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Honda VTR1000F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47847, longitude -0.92012, in the RG4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200243W410042
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 478
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire, 19 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200043P453070
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire, 15 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200943P328059
Slight
Car crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire, 6 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198243E020022
Serious
Car crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire, 11 November 1982
20 m awayRef 198243E044112
Slight
Car crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire, 24 September 1982
22 m awayRef 198243E080092
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B478 in South Oxfordshire, 7 August 1979
22 m awayRef 197943E013089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Honda VTR1000F
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda VTR1000F)
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 200243W410042 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2002.