Serious A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 2 August 2007 at 07:20 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 07:20 on Thursday 2 August 2007. The 48-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
- 2 Aug 2007
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.17651, longitude -0.28768, in the YO14 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007122140110
- 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 6 December 2018
5 m awayRef 2018121900024
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 19 April 2019
63 m awayRef 2019121900571
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 2012
72 m awayRef 2012120193357
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 1 May 2004
85 m awayRef 2004121220213
Serious
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 23 April 2006
89 m awayRef 2006121130677
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 1999
89 m awayRef 1999122040355
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 2007122140110 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.