B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 November 2010 at 14:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 14:00 on Monday 1 November 2010. The 71-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2010
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.16846, longitude -2.32853, in the BD24 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120188744
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6479
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 July 2020.
Serious
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Serious
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Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 21 September 2008
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 28 September 2011
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Fatal
Triumph Daytona 675 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 3 June 2015
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Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 2011
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- 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
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 71, motorcyclist (125cc to 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 2010120188744 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.