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Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY12 on 27 February 1983 at 01:10 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 01:10 on Sunday 27 February 1983. The 19-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Feb 1983
Sunday, 01:10
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37708, longitude -2.32886, in the DY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bewdley.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983220102041
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2006.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, aged 19, 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 1983220102041 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 1983.