Serious B6117 crash in Wakefield on 30 September 2010 at 15:45 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle crashed on the B6117 in Wakefield at 15:45 on Thursday 30 September 2010. The 24-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 38-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Sep 2010
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6448, longitude -1.57913, in the WF4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Netherton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010130006343
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6117
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 20 metres away, was a fatal crash on 7 September 1989.
Fatal
Van crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 7 September 1989
20 m awayRef 198913DA34289
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 25 November 1987
22 m awayRef 198713DA45887
Serious
Car crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 3 February 1995
40 m awayRef 199513DA04295
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6117 in Wakefield, 9 October 1980
41 m awayRef 198013N131980
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wakefield, 23 July 1997
50 m awayRef 199713DA31997
Slight
Car crash on the B6177 in Wakefield, 23 April 1986
51 m awayRef 198613DA13886
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
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 2010130006343 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wakefield road accident statistics for 2010.