Serious B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 October 1997 at 11:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort, a Yamaha motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 11:30 on Sunday 12 October 1997. The 30-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Oct 1997
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05216, longitude -2.02288, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997122850234
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2001.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 2001
At the same spotRef 2001121110552
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 10 January 1996
At the same spotRef 1996120100349
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 27 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001122690283
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 8 July 1995
At the same spotRef 1995121890657
Slight
BMW R Series crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 17 August 2025
27 m awayRef 2025122501255
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 7 April 2013
27 m awayRef 2013120054940
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 1997122850234 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.