A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 11 March 1985 at 11:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 11:40 on Monday 11 March 1985. The 29-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 1985
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.27664, longitude -0.41919, in the YO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scarborough. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985125037666
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1990.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 11 September 1990
At the same spotRef 1990122540375
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 June 1992
10 m awayRef 1992121670534
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 13 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198212D044082
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 8 November 2025
14 m awayRef 2025122600221
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993123470543
Slight
MG HS crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 22 October 2024
25 m awayRef 2024122401181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 1985125037666 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 1985.