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A44 crash in Wychavon on 7 January 1998 at 17:40 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A44 in Wychavon at 17:40 on Wednesday 7 January 1998. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
7 Jan 1998
Wednesday, 17:40
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10323, longitude -2.06259, in the WR10 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wychavon

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199822CD00096
Council area
Wychavon
Police force
West Mercia
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
44
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 1995.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

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

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 199822CD00096 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 1998.