Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY10 on 19 December 1997 at 12:45 involving a Rover Maestro
A Rover Maestro and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 12:45 on Friday 19 December 1997. The 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1997
- Friday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Maestro and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38791, longitude -2.23505, in the DY10 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
- 199722AK06266
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1990.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 6 February 1990
14 m awayRef 1990220102008
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 19 September 1988
14 m awayRef 1988220109042
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 9 April 2022
18 m awayRef 2022221165452
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 18 September 1979
22 m awayRef 1979220109071
Serious
Renault Modus crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 21 May 2015
32 m awayRef 201522D502025
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 12 January 1989
36 m awayRef 1989220101019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 199722AK06266 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 1997.