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A491 crash in Dudley on 25 July 1998 at 23:50 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle

A Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A491 in Dudley at 23:50 on Saturday 25 July 1998. A 25-year-old female pedestrian, a 29-year-old female passenger and the 32-year-old male rider were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Jul 1998
Saturday, 23:50
Vehicles
1
Suzuki GSF 600
Casualties
3
3 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48854, longitude -2.16357, in the DY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswinford.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199820J128101
Council area
Dudley
Police force
West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
491
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2022.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 600

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    32 years
    Engine capacity
    599 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 29, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)

  • Casualty 3: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)

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 199820J128101 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 1998.