Serious B1416 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 December 1982 at 20:00 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1416 in North Yorkshire at 20:00 on Sunday 12 December 1982. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured. The location was in the former Scarborough district.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 12 Dec 1982; Sunday, 20:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198212D128782
Council area: North Yorkshire
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 1416
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: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
43 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198212D128782 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 1982.