A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 13 September 2005 at 21:22 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 21:22 on Tuesday 13 September 2005. The 30-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2005
- Tuesday, 21:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.2749, longitude -0.40233, in the YO11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scarborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, North Yorkshire, YO11 1JR area accident hotspot. 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
- 2005122560984
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 165
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 19 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991122310006
Serious
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 11 April 1982
At the same spotRef 198212D033682
Slight
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 1980
At the same spotRef 198012D049980
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 4 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005120040084
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 18 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025122501351
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 22 June 2020
10 m awayRef 2020122001327
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2005122560984 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.