Unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 16 August 2002 at 18:07 involving a Yamaha XJ 600 N motorcycle
A Yamaha XJ 600 N motorcycle and a Rover 45 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redditch at 18:07 on Friday 16 August 2002. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XJ 600 N motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2002
- Friday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha XJ 600 N and Rover 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29506, longitude -1.97137, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200222BD26566
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 August 1981
22 m awayRef 1981220208040
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 10 July 1981
54 m awayRef 1981220207012
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 11 July 1983
63 m awayRef 1983220207005
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 25 October 1979
70 m awayRef 1979220210020
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 6 January 2003
71 m awayRef 200322BD28674
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 1 February 1981
86 m awayRef 1981220202005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XJ 600 N
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJ 600 N)
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 200222BD26566 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redditch road accident statistics for 2002.