Serious A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 22 April 2015 at 14:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 14:05 on Wednesday 22 April 2015. The 28-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99147, longitude -1.54176, in the HG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5LQ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2015120065996
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2014.
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 2014
4 m awayRef 2014120118371
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 24 March 2015
4 m awayRef 2015120048732
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 8 May 2015
4 m awayRef 2015120075741
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 26 August 1988
5 m awayRef 1988128151351
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 24 January 1999
5 m awayRef 1999120240217
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 1983
5 m awayRef 198312B060083
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 2015120065996 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.