A451 crash in Wyre Forest on 31 December 2007 at 11:13 involving a Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle crashed on the A451 in Wyre Forest at 11:13 on Monday 31 December 2007. A 42-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2007
- Monday, 11:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40852, longitude -2.21004, in the DY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722DA87566
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 451
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 January 2017.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 31 January 2017
46 m awayRef 2017220151978
Serious
Nissan Silvia crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 26 September 1994
50 m awayRef 199422AF10379
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 18 December 1990
63 m awayRef 1990220112035
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 8 March 1991
91 m awayRef 1991220103009
Slight
Honda crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 24 December 1995
98 m awayRef 199522AX13660
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 21 February 1991
143 m awayRef 1991220102016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1000)
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 200722DA87566 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre Forest road accident statistics for 2007.