A451 crash in Wyre Forest on 9 May 1989 at 11:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A451 in Wyre Forest at 11:05 on Tuesday 9 May 1989. The 41-year-old female rider 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
- 9 May 1989
- Tuesday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39725, longitude -2.24127, 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
- 1989220105013
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 451
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2011.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 21 September 2011
10 m awayRef 201122D104005
Slight
Renault Safrane crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 20 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199822AZ00621
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 21 June 2006
22 m awayRef 200622DA52083
Serious
Car crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 1 November 1979
32 m awayRef 1979220111009
Slight
Van crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 16 November 1984
32 m awayRef 1984220111040
Serious
Audi A1 crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 14 December 2022
35 m awayRef 2022221253688
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 41, 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 1989220105013 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.