Serious unclassified road crash in Redditch B97 on 29 September 2007 at 00:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Redditch at 00:25 on Saturday 29 September 2007. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Sep 2007
- Saturday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29065, longitude -1.9532, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722DE86983
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2005.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 17 December 2005
32 m awayRef 200522DG48842
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 December 1982
98 m awayRef 1982220212017
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 20 June 2001
99 m awayRef 200122BD20364
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 3 April 2006
106 m awayRef 200622DE50914
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 13 September 1995
114 m awayRef 199522BA06395
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 23 May 1992
117 m awayRef 1992220305026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 200722DE86983 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 2007.