A6068 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 May 1985 at 22:00 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire at 22:00 on Tuesday 14 May 1985. The 19-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 1985
- Tuesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motor scooter and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9018, longitude -1.98855, in the BD20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cross Hills and Steeton. 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
- 1985125076572
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6068
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 27 November 1984
14 m awayRef 1984124196444
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 14 June 1997
40 m awayRef 1997121650493
Serious
Van crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 23 February 1981
41 m awayRef 198112B029681
Serious
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 1 October 2020
55 m awayRef 2020122001066
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6172 in North Yorkshire, 17 October 1989
58 m awayRef 1989121077851
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 22 November 1990
58 m awayRef 1990123260482
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1985125076572 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.