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B4190 crash in Wyre Forest on 21 November 1997 at 08:20 involving a Yamaha motorcycle

A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B4190 in Wyre Forest at 08:20 on Friday 21 November 1997. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
Slight
Date
21 Nov 1997
Friday, 08:20
Vehicles
1
Yamaha
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3775, longitude -2.3083, in the DY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bewdley.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199722AU05699
Council area
Wyre Forest
Police force
West Mercia
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4190
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Human crossing control by other authorised person

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Yamaha

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199722AU05699 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.