Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO18 on 19 September 1980 at 23:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 23:10 on Friday 19 September 1980. The 20-year-old male rider and a 20-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 1980
- Friday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.32322, longitude -0.84962, in the YO18 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198012D106780
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a fatal crash on 18 October 1999.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 October 1999
20 m awayRef 1999122910050
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 26 June 1999
151 m awayRef 1999121770887
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 30 June 1979
171 m awayRef 197912D061379
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 21 September 1980
182 m awayRef 198012D106380
Slight
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194 m awayRef 2023122300717
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 July 2018
517 m awayRef 2018121800058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, 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 198012D106780 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Yorkshire road accident statistics for 1980.