POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 59-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a car in north Oxfordshire.

The man, who has not been named, was riding a Yamaha motorbike on the B4100 from Baynard’s Green towards Bicester on Monday evening.

A Thames Valley Police spokesman said the motorcyclist was thought to have collided with a Toyota Yaris car driving towards Baynard’s Green, near the turnings for Stoke Wood and Stoke Lyne and Hethe.

The incident happened at about 7.20pm.

The motorcyclist, who is understood to be from the Bicester area, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

The car driver was taken by ambulance to The Horton Hospital, in Banbury. He is understood to have suffered injuries to his head, arms and legs, but his condition was not thought to life-threatening.

Yesterday flowers had been laid at the scene of the crash in memory of the motorcyclist.

An inquest into his death is expected to be opened tomorrow by Oxfordshire Coroner Nicholas Gardiner.

Meanwhile, four men taken to hospital with serious injuries after a car crash near Bicester on Saturday were all reported to be in a stable condition at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford last night.

The men, who were all believed to be aged in their 20s, were taken to the JR after their car crashed at a roundabout on the A41 dual carriageway.

Their Audi car went over the centre of the roundabout half way between junction nine of the M40 at Wendlebury and the outskirts of Bicester at 9.45pm.

It landed on its roof and firefighters used hydraulic cutting gear to free three of the men from the wrecked vehicle.

Police also said last night that a man who was found dead in a French registered car in Benson on Monday was a 21 year old.

The driver was discovered in his overturned silver Peugeot 206 in a ditch alongside Brook Street shortly before 2.30am. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The car had French licence plates.

The man’s family have been informed of his death, but his identity has not yet been released.

Police are appealing for anyone with information about any of the incidents to call them on 08458 505505.