A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 September 2008 at 18:45 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 18:45 on Friday 19 September 2008. The 55-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2008
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.24338, longitude -0.77386, in the YO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pickering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8DY area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120103368
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 2 September 1985
28 m awayRef 1985125252532
Slight
Kawasaki Z750 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 15 September 1997
30 m awayRef 1997122580254
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 14 September 1994
30 m awayRef 1994122580218
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 9 August 1989
30 m awayRef 1989121030384
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 1983
36 m awayRef 198312D078283
Slight
Volvo crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 2022
38 m awayRef 2022122201033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2008120103368 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.