Serious A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 October 2008 at 19:40 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 19:40 on Monday 6 October 2008. The 31-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Oct 2008
- Monday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.22767, longitude -1.13881, in the YO7 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
- 2008120113093
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 131 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 21 February 2015
131 m awayRef 2015120028958
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 14 December 1979
168 m awayRef 197912D137079
Serious
Van crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 6 November 1981
221 m awayRef 198112D123181
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 26 August 1981
272 m awayRef 198112D094381
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 22 October 1994
273 m awayRef 1994122950182
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 29 March 2015
276 m awayRef 2015120051238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 2008120113093 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.