Serious B6255 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 April 2015 at 12:59 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6255 in North Yorkshire at 12:59 on Sunday 19 April 2015. The 47-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 12:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.22592, longitude -2.32385, in the LA6 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
- 2015120064165
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6255
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 2013.
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Triumph Daytona 675 crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 16 July 2013
14 m awayRef 2013120118783
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Honda CBR1000RR crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 20 April 2013
19 m awayRef 2013120062681
Serious
Triumph Sprint ST 1050 crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 2 June 2020
117 m awayRef 2020122000512
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 8 May 2022
178 m awayRef 2022122200692
Serious
Suzuki TL 1000 crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 27 April 2011
254 m awayRef 2011120068105
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B4255 in North Yorkshire, 31 May 1999
262 m awayRef 1999121510288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, 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 2015120064165 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.