B4445 crash in South Oxfordshire on 22 November 2018 at 17:00 involving a Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle crashed on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire at 17:00 on Thursday 22 November 2018. The 57-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2018
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XC 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70606, longitude -0.91603, in the OX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chinnor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chinnor, South Oxfordshire, OX39 4QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430357960
- Council area
- South Oxfordshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4445
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2024.
Slight
Van crash on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire, 23 May 2024
4 m awayRef 2024430242540
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire, 7 October 2010
22 m awayRef 201043P057100
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire, 18 May 1982
57 m awayRef 198243A027052
Slight
Car crash on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire, 12 June 1981
85 m awayRef 198143A021061
Serious
Car crash on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire, 23 January 1983
102 m awayRef 198343A095013
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4445 in South Oxfordshire, 4 March 2000
107 m awayRef 200043P232030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XC 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2018430357960 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 2018.