Unclassified road crash in York YO26 on 10 February 2012 at 05:14 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A Piaggio Zip motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in York at 05:14 on Friday 10 February 2012. The 41-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2012
- Friday, 05:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95304, longitude -1.13934, in the YO26 postcode district and within the built-up area of York. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westfield, York, YO26 5AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120021444
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 5 September 1983
45 m awayRef 198312A141683
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 16 March 1980
50 m awayRef 198012A051680
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 7 May 1979
50 m awayRef 197912A075779
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 19 October 1981
50 m awayRef 198112A177981
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 1 September 1986
52 m awayRef 1986126161311
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in York, 2 June 1991
63 m awayRef 1991121530421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 41, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
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 2012120021444 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2012.