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A435 crash in Wychavon on 1 November 1980 at 14:45 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A435 in Wychavon at 14:45 on Saturday 1 November 1980. The 19-year-old male rider and a 32-year-old male pedestrian were 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
1 Nov 1980
Saturday, 14:45
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09235, longitude -1.94785, in the WR11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Evesham.

Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980220311005
Council area
Wychavon
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
435
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2018.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1980220311005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 1980.