A451 crash in Wyre Forest on 18 September 1985 at 13:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest at 13:30 on Wednesday 18 September 1985. The 18-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1985
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39347, longitude -2.24566, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985220109034
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 451
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 July 2014.
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 17 July 2014
10 m awayRef 201422D402652
Serious
Car crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 25 March 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220103054
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 12 August 1980
14 m awayRef 1980220108019
Slight
Mini One crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 17 August 2015
14 m awayRef 201522C503281
Slight
Car crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 2 March 1985
20 m awayRef 1985220103006
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 14 June 1983
20 m awayRef 1983220106028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 1985220109034 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 1985.