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Serious A449 crash in Wyre Forest on 1 November 1989 at 13:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A449 in Wyre Forest at 13:40 on Wednesday 1 November 1989. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously 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
Serious
Date
1 Nov 1989
Wednesday, 13:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.414, longitude -2.2274, in the DY10 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1989220111002
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
449
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2016.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 29, 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 1989220111002 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.