A451 crash in Wyre Forest on 1 July 2012 at 17:10 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle crashed on the A451 in Wyre Forest at 17:10 on Sunday 1 July 2012. The 42-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38544, longitude -2.24446, in the DY10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kidderminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blakebrook & Habberley South, Wyre Forest, DY10 1LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222D202643
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 September 2020.
Serious
Suzuki SX4 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 15 September 2020
7 m awayRef 2020220984013
Slight
Leyland crash on the A451 in Wyre Forest, 4 October 1994
10 m awayRef 199422AF10908
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 15 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200122AA16383
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 1 August 2022
10 m awayRef 2022221223141
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 27 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200322DA33353
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 14 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199822AT00546
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R1)
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 201222D202643 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 2012.