A456 crash in Wyre Forest on 15 September 1987 at 08:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest at 08:50 on Tuesday 15 September 1987. The 18-year-old male 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
- 15 Sep 1987
- Tuesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39151, longitude -2.23683, 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
- 1987220109039
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2016.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 12 October 2016
7 m awayRef 2016220120776
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 18 November 2015
22 m awayRef 2015220038686
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 26 October 2001
22 m awayRef 200122AA18752
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 16 October 2006
22 m awayRef 200622DA53853
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 3 June 1983
22 m awayRef 1983220106018
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 25 June 1987
32 m awayRef 1987220106039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 1987220109039 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 1987.