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Serious A442 crash in Wyre Forest on 19 April 1990 at 14:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf

A Volkswagen Golf and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest at 14:30 on Thursday 19 April 1990. The 42-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Apr 1990
Thursday, 14:30
Vehicles
2
Volkswagen Golf and Honda
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39764, longitude -2.267, in the DY11 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1990220104034
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
442
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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 1 November 1999.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years
    Engine capacity
    1,272 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

  • Vehicle 2: Honda

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years
    Engine capacity
    99 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 42, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda)

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 1990220104034 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 1990.