Serious B4120 crash in Bromsgrove on 22 September 1979 at 23:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4120 in Bromsgrove at 23:50 on Saturday 22 September 1979. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36315, longitude -1.98175, in the B45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnt Green.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979220209055
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 28 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199722BH03688
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 19 August 2018
19 m awayRef 2018220319980
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 5 October 1991
28 m awayRef 1991220210022
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 10 August 1991
50 m awayRef 1991220208011
Serious
Car crash on the B4190 in Bromsgrove, 25 February 2000
57 m awayRef 200022BG12480
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 18 August 2023
71 m awayRef 2023221343068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 1979220209055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 1979.