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B4208 crash in Malvern Hills on 6 November 1979 at 10:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the B4208 in Malvern Hills at 10:00 on Tuesday 6 November 1979. The 18-year-old male rider and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Nov 1979
Tuesday, 10:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09447, longitude -2.3116, in the WR14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979220511011
Council area
Malvern Hills
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4208
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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 with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, 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 1979220511011 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.