Unclassified road crash in Wyre Forest DY12 on 13 January 2014 at 13:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest at 13:10 on Monday 13 January 2014. The 73-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2014
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37572, longitude -2.32329, in the DY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bewdley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bewdley & Rock, Wyre Forest, DY12 2PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422D400297
- Council area
- Wyre Forest
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1998.
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 20 July 1998
81 m awayRef 199822AF03111
Slight
Kawasaki KL600 crash on the B4190 in Wyre Forest, 25 September 1993
98 m awayRef 1993220109019
Serious
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 30 May 1986
110 m awayRef 1986220105054
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 16 April 1983
121 m awayRef 1983220104020
Slight
Car crash on the A456 in Wyre Forest, 25 November 1983
121 m awayRef 1983220111057
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wyre Forest, 22 December 2023
121 m awayRef 2023221393790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 73, 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 201422D400297 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 2014.