Serious A169 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 April 2005 at 14:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A169 in North Yorkshire at 14:15 on Sunday 17 April 2005. The 40-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
- 17 Apr 2005
- Sunday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.35247, longitude -0.68583, in the YO18 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005121070361
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 169
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 98 metres away, was a fatal crash on 19 March 2019.
Fatal
Car crash on the A169 in North Yorkshire, 19 March 2019
98 m awayRef 2019121900403
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A169 in North Yorkshire, 1 June 2002
110 m awayRef 2002121520637
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A169 in North Yorkshire, 24 November 2012
143 m awayRef 2012120198565
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A169 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 1995
210 m awayRef 1995121220586
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A169 in North Yorkshire, 4 January 2021
218 m awayRef 2021122100031
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A169 in North Yorkshire, 17 November 2003
222 m awayRef 2003123210816
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2005121070361 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 2005.