Serious B1257 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 October 2016 at 11:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1257 in North Yorkshire at 11:20 on Saturday 29 October 2016. The 50-year-old male rider 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
- 29 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.29023, longitude -1.13322, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120196463
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1257
- 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, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2005.
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 2005
55 m awayRef 2005121690712
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 3 August 2013
159 m awayRef 2013120131916
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 2 December 2017
304 m awayRef 2017120215747
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 25 March 2007
361 m awayRef 2007120840435
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 18 August 2016
370 m awayRef 2016120149444
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A1257 in North Yorkshire, 27 September 1997
384 m awayRef 1997122700611
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,078 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2016120196463 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.