Serious A417 crash in Malvern Hills on 8 June 1994 at 13:20 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A417 in Malvern Hills at 13:20 on Wednesday 8 June 1994. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jun 1994
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04481, longitude -2.43533, in the HR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ledbury.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199422EP05511
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 417
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 438
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 19 June 1980.
Fatal
Car crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 19 June 1980
41 m awayRef 1980220506044
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A438 in Herefordshire, 17 July 2003
50 m awayRef 200322ED25321
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A417 in the Malvern Hills, 31 March 1997
81 m awayRef 199722EN01416
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 4 July 1993
130 m awayRef 1993220507005
Serious
Car crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 31 August 1981
140 m awayRef 1981220508067
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A438 in the Malvern Hills, 5 July 1996
141 m awayRef 199622EE04996
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199422EP05511 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Malvern Hills road accident statistics for 1994.