Unclassified road crash in York YO30 on 10 January 1998 at 20:59 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Renault were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 20:59 on Saturday 10 January 1998. The 16-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jan 1998
- Saturday, 20:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Renault
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99042, longitude -1.1062, in the YO30 postcode district and within the built-up area of York.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998120100611
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1998.
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Ford Probe crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 8 July 1995
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Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in York, 24 January 2000
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Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 March 1995
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Slight
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in York, 28 December 1997
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 1998120100611 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 1998.