A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 May 2014 at 15:50 involving a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 15:50 on Saturday 17 May 2014. A 54-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2014
- Saturday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Harley-Davidson FLS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.08171, longitude -2.32232, in the BD24 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014120078953
- 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
- 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, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2008.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 2008
89 m awayRef 2008121030402
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 25 November 2016
203 m awayRef 2016120213424
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 28 May 1990
385 m awayRef 1990121480422
Fatal
MAN Tge crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 6 August 2024
439 m awayRef 2024122400906
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 1999
474 m awayRef 1999121220520
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 16 February 1990
474 m awayRef 1990121255323
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,585 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson FLS)
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 2014120078953 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.