A451 crash in Malvern Hills on 28 March 1989 at 09:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A451 in Malvern Hills at 09:10 on Tuesday 28 March 1989. The 64-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 1989
- Tuesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31029, longitude -2.32602, in the DY13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989220103057
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 451
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 1999.
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A451 in the Malvern Hills, 8 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199922AU00846
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A451 in the Malvern Hills, 8 December 1993
10 m awayRef 1993220112015
Slight
Car crash on the A451 in the Malvern Hills, 20 October 1986
10 m awayRef 1986220110052
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 22 January 2002
10 m awayRef 200222AC19620
Serious
Van crash on the A451 in the Malvern Hills, 24 September 1988
10 m awayRef 1988220109054
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 15 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200022AC13889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1989220103057 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 1989.