Serious B6285 crash in North Yorkshire on 11 August 2016 at 15:05 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B6285 in North Yorkshire at 15:05 on Thursday 11 August 2016. The 47-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Aug 2016
- Thursday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.27759, longitude -1.54857, in the DL8 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120144402
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6285
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 28 August 2009
48 m awayRef 2009120149865
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 30 March 1991
154 m awayRef 1991120890146
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 19 April 2005
193 m awayRef 2005121090052
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 August 1979
359 m awayRef 197912C101079
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 23 August 2000
434 m awayRef 2000122360120
Slight
Car crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 16 August 1983
457 m awayRef 198312C068483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016120144402 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.