A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 October 1983 at 08:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 08:55 on Wednesday 5 October 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1983
- Wednesday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99739, longitude -1.50328, in the HG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198312B113283
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- 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 serious injury crash on 28 September 2007.
Serious
Volvo S60 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 28 September 2007
At the same spotRef 2007122710066
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 29 October 2010
At the same spotRef 2010120186608
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011120020199
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 15 November 2024
8 m awayRef 2024122401243
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 11 April 1981
10 m awayRef 198112B051981
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 15 February 1999
10 m awayRef 1999120460566
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198312B113283 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.