Serious B6271 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 July 1985 at 18:24 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6271 in North Yorkshire at 18:24 on Saturday 6 July 1985. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jul 1985
- Saturday, 18:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.39368, longitude -1.67193, in the DL10 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985125210796
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6271
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1988.
Slight
Van crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 6 April 1988
At the same spotRef 1988128057761
Fatal
Van crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 13 June 1988
50 m awayRef 1988128100671
Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 1996
50 m awayRef 1996121680490
Serious
Car crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 1984
50 m awayRef 198412C037084
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 18 May 1989
58 m awayRef 1989128315546
Slight
Dacia Sandero crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 27 June 2025
80 m awayRef 2025122501047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 1985125210796 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.