A442 crash in Wyre Forest on 26 July 1980 at 10:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest at 10:30 on Saturday 26 July 1980. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1980
- Saturday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38913, longitude -2.25401, in the DY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980220107072
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 442
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1992.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 21 October 1992
22 m awayRef 1992220110024
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 14 April 1979
22 m awayRef 1979220104021
Slight
Honda crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 31 October 2000
41 m awayRef 200022AA15707
Slight
Lada Samara crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 11 February 1996
45 m awayRef 199622AV01444
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 8 December 1979
45 m awayRef 1979220112035
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 29 October 2025
49 m awayRef 2025221661158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1980220107072 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre Forest road accident statistics for 1980.