A659 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 June 2004 at 13:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire at 13:25 on Thursday 24 June 2004. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 2004
- Thursday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88455, longitude -1.26743, in the LS24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tadcaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, LS24 9PA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004121760490
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 659
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 March 2007.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 26 March 2007
36 m awayRef 2007120850170
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 1999
50 m awayRef 1999122590664
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 31 December 2002
50 m awayRef 2002123650142
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 18 May 2023
51 m awayRef 2023122300458
Slight
Daihatsu crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 13 November 1991
51 m awayRef 1991123170598
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 12 December 2025
52 m awayRef 2025122600363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2004121760490 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 2004.