A659 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 October 2015 at 15:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire at 15:30 on Tuesday 20 October 2015. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2015
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88394, longitude -1.26146, in the LS24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tadcaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, LS24 9PA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120187069
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 659
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2025.
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Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 26 November 2008
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 27 December 2006
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Slight
Fiat Ulysse crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 2006
7 m awayRef 2006121930708
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A659 in North Yorkshire, 5 October 2018
8 m awayRef 2018121800384
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 28 July 1982
15 m awayRef 198212A121982
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 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 2015120187069 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.