Serious A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 9 March 2014 at 18:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 18:40 on Sunday 9 March 2014. The 53-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Mar 2014
- Sunday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00111, longitude -2.19774, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014120038127
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 11 January 2012
13 m awayRef 2012120005413
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 12 October 1980
24 m awayRef 198012B144080
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 2018
30 m awayRef 2018120094397
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 3 March 2006
31 m awayRef 2006120620869
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 June 2025
35 m awayRef 2025122500735
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 11 September 2018
38 m awayRef 2018121800264
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2014120038127 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 2014.