Serious A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 December 1986 at 14:30 involving a van
A van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 14:30 on Monday 15 December 1986. The 89-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 1986
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986126232174
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- 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
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 89, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1986126232174 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 1986.