Serious B1242 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 3 November 2001 at 21:02 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the B1242 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 21:02 on Saturday 3 November 2001. The 35-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 2001
- Saturday, 21:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90991, longitude -0.17285, in the HU18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hornsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU18 1AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200116C097201
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1242
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2022.
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the B1242 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1 December 2022
7 m awayRef 2022161261351
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 20 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198816P050214
Slight
Car crash on the B1242 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 13 September 1983
14 m awayRef 198316P050740
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 11 November 2003
22 m awayRef 200316C097103
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1242 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 3 November 1980
28 m awayRef 198016R140623
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1242 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 16 August 1990
45 m awayRef 199016P050778
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 200116C097201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 2001.