B1363 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 April 1997 at 17:18 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the B1363 in North Yorkshire at 17:18 on Sunday 6 April 1997. The 47-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 1997
- Sunday, 17:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.19128, longitude -1.04517, 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
- 1997120960502
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1363
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 April 2010.
Serious
Honda VTR1000F crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 18 April 2010
30 m awayRef 2010120060516
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 2013
30 m awayRef 2013120098152
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 2013
31 m awayRef 2013120063272
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 6 June 1981
36 m awayRef 198112D057981
Slight
Honda CBR1100XX crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 25 April 2011
41 m awayRef 2011120066894
Slight
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 18 May 2003
45 m awayRef 2003121390282
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 1997120960502 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 1997.