Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 15 May 1982 at 16:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 16:30 on Saturday 15 May 1982. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 1982
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29075, longitude -1.91565, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982220205010
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1999.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 30 June 1999
30 m awayRef 199922BQ01625
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 7 May 1988
42 m awayRef 1988220205044
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 May 1981
71 m awayRef 1981220205003
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 22 November 1992
122 m awayRef 1992220311035
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 16 June 1993
130 m awayRef 1993220306017
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 15 May 2009
136 m awayRef 200922D903715
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 1982220205010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redditch road accident statistics for 1982.