B4508 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 25 May 2018 at 18:00 involving a Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle
A Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle crashed on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse at 18:00 on Friday 25 May 2018. The 21-year-old male rider 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
- 25 May 2018
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GZ 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65174, longitude -1.5051, in the SN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430173072
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 4508
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 166 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 26 October 2024
166 m awayRef 2024430516772
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 6 March 2016
174 m awayRef 201643P052036
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 27 February 1995
175 m awayRef 199543U096025
Fatal
Renault Master crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 31 October 2007
198 m awayRef 200743P319107
Slight
Car crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 2 December 1999
281 m awayRef 199943P039129
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4508 in the Vale of White Horse, 11 March 2004
333 m awayRef 200443P119034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GZ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GZ 125)
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 2018430173072 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.