A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 March 2012 at 14:00 involving a Honda CB900F motorcycle
A Honda CB900F motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 14:00 on Friday 30 March 2012. The 56-year-old male rider of the Honda CB900F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2012
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CB900F and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.09166, longitude -1.53019, in the HG3 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120050373
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 29 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019121901584
Slight
Ford Transit Courier crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 16 January 2025
4 m awayRef 2025122500228
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 1999
5 m awayRef 1999122520306
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 13 September 2005
8 m awayRef 2005122560104
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 10 May 2010
8 m awayRef 2010120074358
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 27 April 1979
9 m awayRef 197912C045079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB900F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 919 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB900F)
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 2012120050373 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 2012.