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Serious B4090 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 9 May 1979 at 16:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the B4090 in Stratford-on-Avon at 16:20 on Wednesday 9 May 1979. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
9 May 1979
Wednesday, 16:20
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24266, longitude -1.92087, in the B96 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979230000685
Council area
Stratford-on-Avon
Police force
Warwickshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4090
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, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, 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 1979230000685 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 1979.