Serious B6451 crash in North Yorkshire on 13 April 2015 at 21:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B6451 in North Yorkshire at 21:30 on Monday 13 April 2015. The 44-year-old male cyclist 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
- 13 Apr 2015
- Monday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98201, longitude -1.68571, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120060626
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6451
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2025.
Slight
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Yamaha YZF crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 10 May 2025
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Serious
Car crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 18 November 2017
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Serious
Car crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 18 November 1989
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Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 1996
42 m awayRef 1996121940496
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 19 December 2003
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 44, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2015120060626 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 2015.