B1249 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 8 February 1985 at 00:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1249 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 00:45 on Friday 8 February 1985. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 1985
- Friday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.01056, longitude -0.43814, in the YO25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Driffield.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198516P140078
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1249
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- 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 28 September 2008.
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the B1249 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 28 September 2008
At the same spotRef 2008160C05840
Slight
Car crash on the B1249 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 14 November 2012
9 m awayRef 2012160C07371
Slight
Car crash on the B1249 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 27 July 2019
11 m awayRef 2019160870603
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 17 September 1999
14 m awayRef 199916C051699
Slight
Car crash on the B1249 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1 July 2016
19 m awayRef 2016160110775
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1249 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 7 March 1990
20 m awayRef 199016P140194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 198516P140078 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 1985.