Serious B4494 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 15 June 2025 at 12:15 involving a BMW S 1000 motorcycle
A BMW S 1000 motorcycle crashed on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse at 12:15 on Sunday 15 June 2025. The 32-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jun 2025
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW S 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57492, longitude -1.41254, in the OX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025430295800
- 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
- 4494
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 2023.
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 19 August 2023
5 m awayRef 2023430371196
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of White Horse, 24 November 2021
11 m awayRef 2021430531293
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 21 April 2011
22 m awayRef 201143P223041
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 23 August 1995
23 m awayRef 199543U076085
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 1 October 2004
32 m awayRef 200443P006104
Serious
Car crash on the B4494 in the Vale of White Horse, 2 October 1982
34 m awayRef 198243F004102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW S 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW S 1000)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025430295800 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 2025.