Serious unclassified road crash in Worcester WR4 on 8 November 2017 at 17:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worcester at 17:45 on Wednesday 8 November 2017. The 43-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20834, longitude -2.18649, in the WR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Warndon & Elbury Park, Worcester, WR4 9YU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220240171
- Council area
- Worcester
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 16 April 1990
6 m awayRef 1990220304030
Serious
Cupra Born crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 24 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023221300944
Slight
Ford Grand C-Max crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 27 March 2023
16 m awayRef 2023221292340
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 8 September 1982
17 m awayRef 1982220309044
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 23 March 1988
23 m awayRef 1988220303056
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 23 September 1988
24 m awayRef 1988220309100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017220240171 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 2017.