A40 crash in Cherwell on 23 April 2007 at 16:15 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cherwell at 16:15 on Monday 23 April 2007. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2007
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar XJ Series and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79247, longitude -1.30167, in the OX2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200743P226047
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a fatal crash on 28 December 1979.
Fatal
Car crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 28 December 1979
20 m awayRef 197943G077129
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 13 November 2006
32 m awayRef 200643P179116
Fatal
MAN/VW crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 16 April 1997
41 m awayRef 199743P099047
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 25 January 1992
51 m awayRef 199243P104012
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 22 March 1986
51 m awayRef 198643B060036
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 22 May 1997
58 m awayRef 199743P173057
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 200743P226047 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cherwell road accident statistics for 2007.