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Serious A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 April 1996 at 09:11 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle

A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 09:11 on Thursday 4 April 1996. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Apr 1996
Thursday, 09:11
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20327, longitude -1.45652, in the YO7 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996120950129
Council area
North Yorkshire
Police force
North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
61
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    16 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)

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 1996120950129 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 1996.