Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire LS25 on 29 June 1997 at 12:20 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 12:20 on Sunday 29 June 1997. A 38-year-old male passenger and the 39-year-old male rider were 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
- 29 Jun 1997
- Sunday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8137, longitude -1.29374, in the LS25 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997121800311
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 1997121800311 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.