A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 July 1990 at 16:35 involving a Leyland Cars Mini
A Leyland Cars Mini, a Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 16:35 on Monday 30 July 1990. The 26-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki EX500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1990
- Monday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Leyland Cars Mini and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.26435, longitude -0.90807, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990122140286
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 October 2013.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 1 October 2013
40 m awayRef 2013120170624
Serious
Kia Soul crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 18 October 2025
63 m awayRef 2025122600113
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 7 August 2004
63 m awayRef 2004122200194
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 25 March 1983
73 m awayRef 198312D021183
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 2016
87 m awayRef 2016120098345
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 16 December 1995
100 m awayRef 1995123500331
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Leyland Cars Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 848 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki EX500
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki EX500)
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 1990122140286 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 1990.