B4204 crash in Malvern Hills on 23 January 1981 at 09:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4204 in Malvern Hills at 09:35 on Friday 23 January 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 1981
- Friday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23764, longitude -2.35961, in the WR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Malvern Hills
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981220101040
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4204
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2008.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4204 in the Malvern Hills, 22 February 2008
14 m awayRef 200822CA87652
Serious
Honda NE50M crash on the B4204 in the Malvern Hills, 26 February 1993
14 m awayRef 1993220102011
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4204 in the Malvern Hills, 3 January 1988
22 m awayRef 1988220101021
Slight
Car crash on the B4204 in the Malvern Hills, 10 January 1980
40 m awayRef 1980220101032
Slight
Car crash on the B4204 in the Malvern Hills, 11 February 1983
92 m awayRef 1983220102015
Slight
Car crash on the B4204 in the Malvern Hills, 1 September 1986
143 m awayRef 1986220109007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 1981220101040 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 1981.