A40 crash in Cherwell on 4 March 2016 at 17:00 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a Suzuki UK 110 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cherwell at 17:00 on Friday 4 March 2016. The 51-year-old female rider of the Suzuki UK 110 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2016
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and Suzuki UK 110
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79223, longitude -1.30005, 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
- 201643P037036
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 2004.
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 22 February 2004
16 m awayRef 200443P298024
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 17 April 2004
31 m awayRef 200443P210044
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 3 June 1990
42 m awayRef 199043B009060
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 13 March 2009
50 m awayRef 200943P131039
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 15 September 2005
72 m awayRef 200543P201095
Fatal
MAN/VW crash on the A40 in Cherwell, 16 April 1997
74 m awayRef 199743P099047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki UK 110
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 113 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 51, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki UK 110)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 201643P037036 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 2016.