A44 crash in Worcester on 11 December 1998 at 16:15 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A44 in Worcester at 16:15 on Friday 11 December 1998. The 40-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1998
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 405 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18755, longitude -2.21761, in the WR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822CF06285
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1995.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Worcester, 7 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199522CH08564
Serious
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A44 in Worcester, 15 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200022CA18949
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A44 in Worcester, 9 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199922CA12338
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A38 in Worcester, 24 August 1985
10 m awayRef 1985220308074
Slight
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on the A44 in Worcester, 12 December 2016
10 m awayRef 2016220138891
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in Worcester, 3 November 1988
20 m awayRef 1988220311004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 199822CF06285 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 1998.