A19 crash in York on 27 September 2008 at 17:27 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A19 in York at 17:27 on Saturday 27 September 2008. The 45-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 17:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94371, longitude -1.07397, in the YO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of York. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fishergate, York, YO10 4PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120108074
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 November 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A19 in York, 4 November 1982
At the same spotRef 198212A186882
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A19 in York, 7 March 2016
7 m awayRef 2016120043531
Serious
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A19 in York, 4 December 2019
8 m awayRef 2019121901533
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in York, 24 August 2020
8 m awayRef 2020122000769
Serious
Hyundai Accent crash on the A19 in York, 13 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004122870890
Serious
Car crash on the A19 in York, 11 July 1981
10 m awayRef 198112A112981
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R1)
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 2008120108074 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2008.