Serious A456 crash in Wyre Forest on 20 May 2008 at 15:00 involving a Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest at 15:00 on Tuesday 20 May 2008. The 31-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 2008
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki GZ 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36067, longitude -2.39469, in the DY14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Callow Hill.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822DA88486
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 456
- 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
- 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 21 October 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 21 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199822AM04750
Fatal
Van crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 15 December 1979
64 m awayRef 1979220112033
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 19 October 1987
86 m awayRef 1987220110035
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 28 October 1990
92 m awayRef 1990220110030
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 16 April 1979
102 m awayRef 1979220104010
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 12 June 2021
151 m awayRef 2021221071602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- 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
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GZ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GZ 125)
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 200822DA88486 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.