A171 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 June 2003 at 17:23 involving a Suzuki SV 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 1000 motorcycle crashed on the A171 in North Yorkshire at 17:23 on Sunday 15 June 2003. The 36-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jun 2003
- Sunday, 17:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SV 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.35664, longitude -0.47502, in the YO13 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003121660586
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- 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 slight injury crash on 2 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 2 February 1989
At the same spotRef 1989128249874
Serious
BMW crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 5 August 2010
At the same spotRef 2010120134356
Fatal
Honda Jazz crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 30 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022122201000
Serious
Honda CBR900RR crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 24 March 2002
36 m awayRef 2002120830303
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 19 March 2003
50 m awayRef 2003120780070
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 2 February 1994
50 m awayRef 1994120330654
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 1000
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 1000)
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 2003121660586 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 2003.