Unclassified road crash in Shropshire SY4 on 8 January 1990 at 08:20 involving a Honda MT50SG motorcycle
A Honda MT50SG motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Shropshire at 08:20 on Monday 8 January 1990. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 1990
- Monday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda MT50SG
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.85997, longitude -2.79368, in the SY4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990220601014
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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The nearest, 420 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1990.
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Serious
Car crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 16 February 1991
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda MT50SG
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda MT50SG)
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 1990220601014 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 1990.