B6480 crash in North Yorkshire on 31 July 1983 at 20:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6480 in North Yorkshire at 20:30 on Sunday 31 July 1983. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 1983
- Sunday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1182, longitude -2.42205, in the LA2 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198312B089583
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6480
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2022.
Slight
Honda CRF1000A crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 2 February 2022
60 m awayRef 2022122200222
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2025
64 m awayRef 2025122501105
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 1992
81 m awayRef 1992121030286
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 14 April 2014
88 m awayRef 2014120059121
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 3 June 2008
94 m awayRef 2008120038521
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 17 April 1983
114 m awayRef 198312B046683
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, 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 198312B089583 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 1983.