Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO22 on 15 January 2011 at 16:41 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Lambretta motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 16:41 on Saturday 15 January 2011. The 44-year-old male rider of the Lambretta motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2011
- Saturday, 16:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Lambretta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.48646, longitude -0.61114, in the YO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitby Streonshalh, North Yorkshire, YO21 1ED area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011120007824
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 February 2004.
Serious
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 6 February 2004
At the same spotRef 2004120370801
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 12 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198312D099483
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 1980
10 m awayRef 198012D053280
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 26 February 1997
41 m awayRef 1997120570254
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 4 May 2000
45 m awayRef 2000121250676
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 19 August 1998
61 m awayRef 1998122320179
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Lambretta
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lambretta)
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 2011120007824 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 2011.