Serious unclassified road crash in Oxford OX2 on 15 December 2014 at 17:28 involving a Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Oxford at 17:28 on Monday 15 December 2014. The 27-year-old male rider of the Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2014
- Monday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha NXC 125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78677, longitude -1.28256, in the OX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8HX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oxford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201443P170124
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha NXC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha NXC 125)
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 201443P170124 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oxford road accident statistics for 2014.