Serious A46 crash in Wychavon on 25 March 2023 at 13:55 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Triumph Tiger motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A46 in Wychavon at 13:55 on Saturday 25 March 2023. The 52-year-old male rider of the Triumph Tiger motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Mar 2023
- Saturday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Triumph Tiger
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05422, longitude -1.9602, in the WR11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadway, Sedgeberrow & Childswickham, Wychavon, WR11 2SW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023221291981
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4078
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
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 3 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021221110077
Serious
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 26 May 2017
3 m awayRef 2017220192761
Slight
Audi TTS crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 18 June 2021
3 m awayRef 2021221060599
Slight
Lorry crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 17 April 2008
4 m awayRef 200822CA87962
Serious
MG ZR crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 12 April 2015
4 m awayRef 201522C501280
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A46 in Wychavon, 29 June 2019
5 m awayRef 2019220852913
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Triumph Tiger
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,215 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Tiger)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2023221291981 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 2023.