Unclassified road crash in Worcester WR5 on 9 March 2015 at 19:00 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and an Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worcester at 19:00 on Monday 9 March 2015. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SR 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2015
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Aprilia SR 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19021, longitude -2.19041, in the WR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nunnery, Worcester, WR5 1RQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201522C500917
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1997.
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 5 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199722CG08057
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 10 October 2004
28 m awayRef 200422CA43817
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 28 February 1985
54 m awayRef 1985220302040
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 18 September 1987
57 m awayRef 1987220309034
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 24 July 1992
61 m awayRef 1992220407031
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 8 February 2008
90 m awayRef 200822CA87567
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia SR 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia SR 50)
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 201522C500917 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2015.