Unclassified road crash in the Vale of White Horse OX12 on 31 January 2018 at 15:58 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse at 15:58 on Wednesday 31 January 2018. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 15:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60356, longitude -1.42547, in the OX12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Grove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wantage & Grove Brook, Vale of White Horse, OX12 0AE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430053825
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 9 May 1986
16 m awayRef 198643F023056
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 7 July 1993
34 m awayRef 199343U027073
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 18 June 1984
36 m awayRef 198443F043064
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 26 June 1986
38 m awayRef 198643F098066
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 29 May 1984
44 m awayRef 198443F070054
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 25 September 2004
45 m awayRef 200443P351094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018430053825 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 2018.