Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY10 on 3 May 1989 at 06:05 involving a lorry
A lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 06:05 on Wednesday 3 May 1989. The 40-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 May 1989
- Wednesday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38357, longitude -2.24855, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989220105007
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 15 November 1992
At the same spotRef 1992220111013
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 10 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983220101011
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 19 June 1981
At the same spotRef 1981220106025
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 25 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986220108050
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 2 February 1989
At the same spotRef 1989220102014
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 15 January 1981
At the same spotRef 1981220101037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 90 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, 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 1989220105007 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 1989.