Unclassified road crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire HU20 on 31 July 2015 at 16:30 involving a BMW R 1200 motorcycle
A BMW R 1200 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 16:30 on Friday 31 July 2015. The 72-year-old male rider and a 72-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2015
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW R 1200
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79205, longitude -0.49748, in the HU20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015160C04221
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 35%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 65%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW R 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 72, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW R 1200)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW R 1200)
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 2015160C04221 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 2015.