Unclassified road crash in Redditch B98 on 7 May 2003 at 07:00 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 07:00 on Wednesday 7 May 2003. The 44-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2003
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30077, longitude -1.88793, in the B98 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 0AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322DF30756
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2000.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 200322DF30756 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 2003.