Serious C road crash in North Yorkshire WF8 on 30 November 2017 at 05:24 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
An Aprilia motorcycle crashed on a C road in North Yorkshire at 05:24 on Thursday 30 November 2017. The 47-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 05:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67141, longitude -1.22256, in the WF8 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
- 2017120214353
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2008.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 29 October 2008
21 m awayRef 2008120125592
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 January 1983
50 m awayRef 198312A010283
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 28 December 2003
131 m awayRef 2003123620090
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 29 January 1986
188 m awayRef 1986126019060
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 August 1982
220 m awayRef 198212A127482
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 10 October 1988
226 m awayRef 1988128180186
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2017120214353 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 2017.