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Unclassified road crash in Malvern Hills WR5 on 12 January 1979 at 07:35 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Malvern Hills at 07:35 on Friday 12 January 1979. The 17-year-old female rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Jan 1979
Friday, 07:35
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14134, longitude -2.22045, in the WR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kempsey.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979220301042
Council area
Malvern Hills
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, 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 1979220301042 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Malvern Hills road accident statistics for 1979.