Serious unclassified road crash in Bromsgrove B45 on 15 April 1983 at 12:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove at 12:30 on Friday 15 April 1983. A 47-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Apr 1983
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40046, longitude -2.02729, in the B45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983220204035
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 1994.
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 17 October 1988
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 1983220204035 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 1983.