Serious A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 July 2012 at 14:05 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 14:05 on Sunday 15 July 2012. The 60-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 58-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25658, longitude -0.95925, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120114900
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2017.
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 25 July 2017
3 m awayRef 2017120130933
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 21 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016120229341
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 14 October 1995
4 m awayRef 1995122870775
Fatal
Daihatsu Charade crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 29 June 1993
4 m awayRef 1993121800249
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 28 July 1995
4 m awayRef 1995122090829
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 26 March 2009
4 m awayRef 2009120050226
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 58, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2012120114900 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.