A4421 crash in Cherwell on 28 November 2018 at 07:41 involving an MCC Smart
A bicycle and an MCC Smart were involved in a crash on the A4421 in Cherwell at 07:41 on Wednesday 28 November 2018. The 22-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 07:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and MCC Smart
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92036, longitude -1.1394, in the OX27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cherwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018430364948
- Council area
- Cherwell
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4421
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 1992.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 26 September 1992
9 m awayRef 199243P099092
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A4421 in Cherwell, 29 January 2014
12 m awayRef 201443P318014
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A4421 in Cherwell, 12 May 2016
15 m awayRef 201643P088056
Slight
Van crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 20 June 1996
18 m awayRef 199643P088066
Fatal
Car crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 30 June 1982
36 m awayRef 198243G072062
Slight
Bus crash on the A421 in Cherwell, 12 October 1988
49 m awayRef 198843B043108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: MCC Smart
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018430364948 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 2018.