Unclassified road crash in York YO24 on 15 December 1997 at 11:47 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno and a Honda C90 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 11:47 on Monday 15 December 1997. The 72-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 1997
- Monday, 11:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Uno and Honda C90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95479, longitude -1.12617, in the YO24 postcode district and within the built-up area of York.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997123490346
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 27 February 1986
10 m awayRef 1986126034510
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in York, 2 February 1993
10 m awayRef 1993120330418
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on an unclassified road in York, 21 October 2020
13 m awayRef 2020122001013
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in York, 24 March 1980
14 m awayRef 198012A054780
Slight
Car crash on a C road in York, 18 March 1983
14 m awayRef 198312A044583
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 4 September 1983
14 m awayRef 198312A141483
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Honda C90
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 72, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda C90)
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 1997123490346 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 1997.