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Serious A64 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 August 1983 at 00:15 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire at 00:15 on Saturday 6 August 1983. The 21-year-old female rider of the motor scooter was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
6 Aug 1983
Saturday, 00:15
Vehicles
2
Motor scooter and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.24081, longitude -0.4422, in the YO12 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198312D065583
Council area
North Yorkshire
Police force
North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
64
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2003.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Female, aged 21, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 198312D065583 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.