B4220 crash in Malvern Hills on 7 February 1988 at 13:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4220 in Malvern Hills at 13:35 on Sunday 7 February 1988. The 24-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1988
- Sunday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17597, longitude -2.46279, in the WR6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988220502012
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4220
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 July 1998.
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 25 July 1998
10 m awayRef 199822EZ02553
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 11 April 2005
36 m awayRef 200522EJ31975
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4220 in the Malvern Hills, 5 July 1981
58 m awayRef 1981220507045
Slight
Car crash on the B4220 in the Malvern Hills, 8 March 1982
126 m awayRef 1982220503019
Serious
Bedford crash on the B4220 in Herefordshire, 22 December 1994
162 m awayRef 199422EY12948
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B4220 in the Malvern Hills, 28 January 1990
184 m awayRef 1990220501043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 1988220502012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Malvern Hills road accident statistics for 1988.