Serious B1363 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 June 2008 at 12:37 involving a Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle crashed on the B1363 in North Yorkshire at 12:37 on Friday 20 June 2008. 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
- 20 Jun 2008
- Friday, 12:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.17379, longitude -1.06026, in the YO62 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
- 2008120048993
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1363
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2012.
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 4 June 2012
16 m awayRef 2012120089925
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 20 July 1985
61 m awayRef 1985125221404
Serious
BMW M3 crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 9 June 2006
70 m awayRef 2006121600886
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 1994
85 m awayRef 1994121880727
Serious
Yamaha XJ 600 S Diversion crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 6 July 1999
90 m awayRef 1999121870908
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B1363 in North Yorkshire, 12 August 1990
171 m awayRef 1990122240333
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX900)
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 2008120048993 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 2008.