Serious B1248 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 November 1981 at 12:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B1248 in North Yorkshire at 12:50 on Wednesday 18 November 1981. The 45-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 1981
- Wednesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13364, longitude -0.79182, in the YO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Malton. 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
- 198112D126481
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1248
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2008.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1248 in North Yorkshire, 6 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008120970631
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 2005
14 m awayRef 2005121400899
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1248 in North Yorkshire, 29 November 2013
19 m awayRef 2013120206593
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B1248 in North Yorkshire, 28 September 2007
20 m awayRef 2007122710403
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1248 in North Yorkshire, 24 October 1999
20 m awayRef 1999122970208
Slight
Car crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 1983
20 m awayRef 198312D053083
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 45, 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 198112D126481 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.