Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire BD20 on 21 September 2001 at 23:10 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 23:10 on Friday 21 September 2001. The 22-year-old male cyclist and a 21-year-old male passenger were 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
- 21 Sep 2001
- Friday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90386, longitude -1.98779, in the BD20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glusburn, Cross Hills & Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, BD20 7EQ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001122640944
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6172 in North Yorkshire, 6 October 1980
50 m awayRef 198012B141780
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B6172 in North Yorkshire, 11 October 1979
51 m awayRef 197912B158579
Serious
Car crash on the B6172 in North Yorkshire, 9 June 1983
51 m awayRef 198312B069783
Slight
Vauxhall Crossland crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 17 March 2022
55 m awayRef 2022122200473
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B6172 in North Yorkshire, 18 October 2017
59 m awayRef 2017120189078
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 9 July 2006
92 m awayRef 2006121900669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, cyclist, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2001122640944 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 2001.