B4208 crash in Malvern Hills on 21 February 1997 at 00:45 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A Honda C90 motorcycle crashed on the B4208 in Malvern Hills at 00:45 on Friday 21 February 1997. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1997
- Friday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda C90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12047, longitude -2.30506, in the WR14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Malvern.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722CV01008
- Council area
- Malvern Hills
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2002.
Slight
Yamaha XQ 125 crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 11 June 2002
42 m awayRef 200222CC29239
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in the Malvern Hills, 18 December 2015
44 m awayRef 2015220039553
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 6 November 1995
54 m awayRef 199522CM14571
Slight
Taxi crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 26 July 2015
58 m awayRef 201522C502584
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 30 April 1999
67 m awayRef 199922CG01916
Slight
Seat Cordoba crash on the B4208 in the Malvern Hills, 31 March 1995
67 m awayRef 199522CW03815
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
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 199722CV01008 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 1997.