Serious B4188 crash in Bromsgrove on 27 December 1980 at 11:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4188 in Bromsgrove at 11:20 on Saturday 27 December 1980. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 1980
- Saturday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39535, longitude -2.13648, in the DY9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromsgrove
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980220112065
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4188
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 August 2025.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the B4188 in Wyre Forest, 25 August 2025
19 m awayRef 2025221633198
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the B4188 in Bromsgrove, 10 June 2005
20 m awayRef 200522DQ45289
Slight
Car crash on the B4188 in Wyre Forest, 6 June 1984
20 m awayRef 1984220106023
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX1400 crash on the B4188 in Bromsgrove, 11 June 2017
36 m awayRef 2017220189843
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4188 in Bromsgrove, 20 September 1979
120 m awayRef 1979220109041
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4188 in Wyre Forest, 20 September 1994
171 m awayRef 199422AW10140
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 1980220112065 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 1980.