Serious B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 31 August 2015 at 12:09 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 12:09 on Monday 31 August 2015. The 25-year-old male cyclist 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
- 31 Aug 2015
- Monday, 12:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06332, longitude -1.92258, 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
- 2015120153436
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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, 1 metre away, was a fatal crash on 13 August 2014.
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 13 August 2014
1 m awayRef 2014120137657
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 2 August 2015
1 m awayRef 2015120133243
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 30 March 2014
2 m awayRef 2014120049877
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 7 May 2022
5 m awayRef 2022122200551
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 22 April 2020
7 m awayRef 2020122000419
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 21 August 1980
21 m awayRef 198012B113280
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 2015120153436 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.