Serious A1 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 July 2010 at 20:55 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle crashed on the A1 in North Yorkshire at 20:55 on Friday 23 July 2010. The 43-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jul 2010
- Friday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.3006, longitude -1.5651, in the DL7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aiskew & Leeming, North Yorkshire, DL7 9BG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120123408
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2006.
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 23 October 2006
20 m awayRef 2006122960392
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 30 June 2007
20 m awayRef 2007121810633
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 2007
30 m awayRef 2007121950529
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 7 December 1990
30 m awayRef 1990123410266
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 5 March 2001
30 m awayRef 2001120640286
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 3 August 1995
30 m awayRef 1995122150638
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
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 2010120123408 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 2010.