Serious unclassified road crash in Bromsgrove B45 on 31 August 1985 at 07:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove at 07:55 on Saturday 31 August 1985. The 26-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver of the car 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
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 1985
- Saturday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3654, longitude -1.99114, in the B45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985220208060
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 19 September 1979
At the same spotRef 1979220209061
Slight
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15 m awayRef 2021221087230
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 25 March 2024
28 m awayRef 2024221425687
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 22 December 2006
30 m awayRef 200622DE85453
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromsgrove, 31 May 1985
32 m awayRef 1985220205044
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4120 in Bromsgrove, 30 September 1995
41 m awayRef 199522AV10438
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 26, 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 1985220208060 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 1985.