A460 crash in Wolverhampton on 22 December 1979 at 12:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton at 12:15 on Saturday 22 December 1979. The 64-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197920LMMDC90
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 460
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 64, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 197920LMMDC90 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 1979.