Serious B4184 crash in Redditch on 12 July 1986 at 22:18 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4184 in Redditch at 22:18 on Saturday 12 July 1986. A 21-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 1986
- Saturday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30831, longitude -1.96769, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986220207012
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4184
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 27 September 1988
28 m awayRef 1988220209053
Slight
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Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 5 December 1994
40 m awayRef 199422BC09824
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 December 2009
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Slight
Van crash on the B4184 in Redditch, 27 October 1987
41 m awayRef 1987220210045
Serious
Car crash on the B4184 in Redditch, 8 January 1985
54 m awayRef 1985220201003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, 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 1986220207012 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 1986.