Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 4 December 1989 at 10:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 10:20 on Monday 4 December 1989. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1989
- Monday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30902, longitude -1.9429, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989220212005
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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 21 June 1994.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 June 1994
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 21 December 1989
10 m awayRef 1989220212041
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 April 1985
10 m awayRef 1985220204001
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4160 in Redditch, 17 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200422DE36763
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Skoda Octavia crash on the B4160 in Redditch, 30 December 2001
20 m awayRef 200122BA23258
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B4160 in Redditch, 4 March 1997
22 m awayRef 199722BG00674
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 1989220212005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redditch road accident statistics for 1989.