B1252 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 4 October 1985 at 23:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1252 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 23:20 on Friday 4 October 1985. The 17-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
- 4 Oct 1985
- Friday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06983, longitude -0.57117, in the YO25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198516P160827
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1252
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B1253 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 20 December 1988
58 m awayRef 198816P161199
Serious
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67 m awayRef 200316C008103
Serious
Proton Proton crash on the B1252 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 2 November 1999
72 m awayRef 199916C052899
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B1253 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 9 December 2025
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Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B1253 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 10 November 2025
87 m awayRef 2025161668297
Serious
Keeway Superlight crash on the B1253 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 26 May 2023
220 m awayRef 2023161351653
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198516P160827 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.