Serious B1223 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 May 2016 at 18:44 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle, a Hyundai Santa Fe and a car were involved in a crash on the B1223 in North Yorkshire at 18:44 on Thursday 5 May 2016. The 28-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 2016
- Thursday, 18:44
- Vehicles
- 3
- Suzuki GSXR 600 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.85114, longitude -1.20773, in the LS24 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120078152
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1223
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1223 in North Yorkshire, 15 August 1982
16 m awayRef 198212A129682
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 29 September 2000
42 m awayRef 2000122730648
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B1223 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 2003
74 m awayRef 2003121750887
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the B1223 in North Yorkshire, 22 May 2010
85 m awayRef 2010120081850
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1223 in North Yorkshire, 16 February 2019
89 m awayRef 2019121901409
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B1223 in North Yorkshire, 11 November 2017
164 m awayRef 2017120203075
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Santa Fe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016120078152 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 2016.