Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY12 on 24 August 1988 at 21:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 21:00 on Wednesday 24 August 1988. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 1988
- Wednesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37753, longitude -2.32931, in the DY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bewdley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988220108048
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 27 February 1983
58 m awayRef 1983220102041
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 27 October 1983
73 m awayRef 1983220110083
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 4 December 1999
91 m awayRef 199922AD11420
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 11 November 2006
100 m awayRef 200622DA85122
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 22 May 1979
117 m awayRef 1979220105037
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 27 August 1988
133 m awayRef 1988220108036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1988220108048 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 1988.