A422 crash in Cherwell on 30 January 2016 at 17:15 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A422 in Cherwell at 17:15 on Saturday 30 January 2016. The 33-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Suzuki GSXR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07222, longitude -1.31989, in the OX16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Banbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Banbury Grimsbury and Hightown, Cherwell, OX16 3HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201643P312016
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 422
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in Cherwell, 10 April 2018
3 m awayRef 2018430131695
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A422 in Cherwell, 25 February 2007
7 m awayRef 200743P304027
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in Cherwell, 11 January 1999
13 m awayRef 199943P088019
Slight
Lorry crash on the A422 in Cherwell, 21 December 2016
15 m awayRef 2016430008239
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A422 in Cherwell, 19 May 1996
18 m awayRef 199643P066056
Slight
Yamaha TW 125 crash on the A422 in Cherwell, 26 August 2004
18 m awayRef 200443P268084
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
- 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 201643P312016 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.