Serious B6270 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 July 2005 at 18:25 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the B6270 in North Yorkshire at 18:25 on Tuesday 19 July 2005. The 41-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
- 19 Jul 2005
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.37153, longitude -1.89576, in the DL11 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005122000976
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6270
- 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, 136 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 1992.
Serious
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 29 September 1992
136 m awayRef 1992122730184
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 20 October 2002
143 m awayRef 2002030003352
Serious
Ford crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 1993
230 m awayRef 1993121220325
Serious
Car crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 18 June 1981
232 m awayRef 198112C069581
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 1 December 2017
235 m awayRef 2017120215083
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 19 November 1993
314 m awayRef 1993123230380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 2005122000976 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.