Serious A4025 crash in Wyre Forest on 27 February 2008 at 16:45 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Piaggio NRG motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest at 16:45 on Wednesday 27 February 2008. The 17-year-old male rider of the Piaggio NRG motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Feb 2008
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Piaggio NRG
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3398, longitude -2.27107, in the DY13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourport-on-Severn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mitton, Wyre Forest, DY13 8EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822CA87949
- 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
- 4025
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2013.
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest, 8 May 2013
10 m awayRef 201322D301636
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest, 17 August 2021
10 m awayRef 2021221078812
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest, 4 September 2021
19 m awayRef 2021221087702
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest, 16 November 1992
20 m awayRef 1992220111019
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest, 13 September 2006
20 m awayRef 200622DA53353
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A4025 in Wyre Forest, 15 September 1997
28 m awayRef 199722AV04527
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,926 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio NRG)
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 200822CA87949 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 2008.