Serious B480 crash in South Oxfordshire on 29 May 2012 at 13:00 involving an Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle
An Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle crashed on the B480 in South Oxfordshire at 13:00 on Tuesday 29 May 2012. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 May 2012
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia SR 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65214, longitude -1.03757, in the OX49 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201243P300052
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 480
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 15 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198543A056015
Slight
Car crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 16 March 1985
14 m awayRef 198543A076035
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 26 September 1986
20 m awayRef 198643A114096
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 3 May 1995
51 m awayRef 199543P027055
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 22 August 2009
60 m awayRef 200943P215089
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the B480 in South Oxfordshire, 3 October 2004
71 m awayRef 200443P036104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia SR 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia SR 50)
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 201243P300052 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 2012.