Serious unclassified road crash in York YO24 on 23 December 1982 at 22:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in York at 22:35 on Thursday 23 December 1982. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1982
- Thursday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9431, longitude -1.13753, in the YO24 postcode district and within the built-up area of York.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198212A230782
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 24 November 1981
10 m awayRef 198112A204281
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 24 April 1979
20 m awayRef 197912A067179
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in York, 20 August 2025
39 m awayRef 2025122600098
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 18 August 1981
41 m awayRef 198112A138581
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 8 January 1982
90 m awayRef 198212A003782
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 31 May 1983
90 m awayRef 198312A092583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 198212A230782 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 1982.