Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire on 26 December 1986 at 21:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 21:00 on Friday 26 December 1986. The 17-year-old female rider was seriously injured. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 1986
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986126237147
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1986126237147 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.