Serious A450 crash in Wyre Forest on 11 June 2011 at 13:10 involving a motorcycle
Two motorcycles were involved in a crash on the A450 in Wyre Forest at 13:10 on Saturday 11 June 2011. The 69-year-old male rider of vehicle 1 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
- 11 Jun 2011
- Saturday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34711, longitude -2.21283, in the DY10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hartlebury, Wychavon, DY10 4HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201122D102406
- 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
- 450
- 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2009.
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A442 in Wychavon, 4 October 2009
41 m awayRef 200922C905610
Slight
Car crash on the A442 in Wychavon, 16 November 2004
45 m awayRef 200422DB41252
Serious
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A442 in Wychavon, 18 October 1997
50 m awayRef 199722AV04987
Slight
Van crash on the A442 in Wychavon, 23 November 1989
58 m awayRef 1989220111046
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A442 in Wyre Forest, 13 May 2002
64 m awayRef 200222AB20552
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A442 in Wychavon, 9 November 1996
64 m awayRef 199622AA07591
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 69, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 201122D102406 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 2011.