Serious B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 February 2009 at 21:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 21:30 on Monday 23 February 2009. The 35-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
- 23 Feb 2009
- Monday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13088, longitude -1.55494, in the HG4 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009120033239
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 February 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 20 February 1982
36 m awayRef 198212C016682
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 February 2025
41 m awayRef 2025122500309
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 24 December 2003
54 m awayRef 2003123580104
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 1995
130 m awayRef 1995122040639
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1995
158 m awayRef 1995121740631
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 3 May 2013
176 m awayRef 2013120070670
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2009120033239 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 2009.