Serious B1217 crash in North Yorkshire on 11 October 1981 at 15:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on the B1217 in North Yorkshire at 15:40 on Sunday 11 October 1981. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Oct 1981
- Sunday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82744, longitude -1.29062, in the LS24 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112A172481
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1217
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B1217 in North Yorkshire, 1 January 1986
10 m awayRef 1986125381526
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B1217 in North Yorkshire, 31 October 1983
10 m awayRef 198312A181983
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the B1217 in North Yorkshire, 28 May 2017
16 m awayRef 2017120092265
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B1217 in North Yorkshire, 3 December 2025
19 m awayRef 2025122600200
Fatal
Ducati crash on the B1217 in North Yorkshire, 10 October 1999
20 m awayRef 1999122830361
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 10 August 2009
20 m awayRef 2009120147557
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
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 198112A172481 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 1981.