Serious unclassified road crash in Oxford OX4 on 22 May 2016 at 20:00 involving a Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Oxford at 20:00 on Sunday 22 May 2016. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 2016
- Sunday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX636
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7509, longitude -1.23712, in the OX4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's, Oxford, OX4 1JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oxford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201643P231056
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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%
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The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2015.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX636
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 636 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX636)
- 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 201643P231056 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 2016.