B4449 crash in West Oxfordshire on 4 May 2017 at 18:17 involving a Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle
A Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle crashed on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire at 18:17 on Thursday 4 May 2017. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2017
- Thursday, 18:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GZ 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7638, longitude -1.40188, in the OX29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430133286
- Council area
- West Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4449
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 May 2011.
Serious
Triumph Speed Triple 1050 crash on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire, 8 May 2011
7 m awayRef 201143P064051
Slight
Car crash on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire, 13 September 1981
7 m awayRef 198143G037091
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire, 2 October 2000
7 m awayRef 200043P010100
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire, 5 August 2004
8 m awayRef 200443P032084
Slight
Car crash on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire, 14 October 1988
16 m awayRef 198843F061108
Slight
Car crash on the B4449 in West Oxfordshire, 12 September 1989
17 m awayRef 198943F061099
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GZ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GZ 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017430133286 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2017.