Serious B6451 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 June 2000 at 20:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6451 in North Yorkshire at 20:55 on Thursday 15 June 2000. The 32-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jun 2000
- Thursday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98255, longitude -1.68583, in the HG3 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000121670778
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6451
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 August 1994.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 14 August 1994
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Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 19 December 2003
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Serious
Car crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 18 November 1989
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 13 April 2015
60 m awayRef 2015120060626
Slight
Car crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 4 August 1985
71 m awayRef 1985125232733
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2000121670778 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 2000.