Serious B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 March 2007 at 13:15 involving a Yamaha TDM 900 motorcycle
A Yamaha TDM 900 motorcycle crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 13:15 on Saturday 24 March 2007. The 45-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
- 24 Mar 2007
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha TDM 900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.16775, longitude -2.3276, in the BD24 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007120830345
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6479
- 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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2011.
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 12 June 2011
50 m awayRef 2011120096439
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 2 February 1999
64 m awayRef 1999120330652
Fatal
Triumph Daytona 675 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 3 June 2015
70 m awayRef 2015120092405
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 2011
72 m awayRef 2011120158762
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 10 May 2003
72 m awayRef 2003121300641
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 28 September 2011
78 m awayRef 2011120164545
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha TDM 900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 897 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha TDM 900)
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 2007120830345 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 2007.