A4421 crash in Cherwell on 19 March 2012 at 13:40 involving a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry
A DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4421 in Cherwell at 13:40 on Monday 19 March 2012. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2012
- Monday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks FA 45LF and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92346, longitude -1.13648, in the OX27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243P186032
- 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
- 4421
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1997.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 26 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199743P171117
Fatal
Van crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 6 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198543G016085
Serious
Land Rover 88 crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 21 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199543P110125
Slight
MAN crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 5 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199943P073089
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 6 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199643P025126
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4421 in Cherwell, 5 December 2014
2 m awayRef 201443P053124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks FA 45LF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), 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 201243P186032 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 2012.