C road crash in York YO30 on 16 May 2018 at 16:55 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A Piaggio Zip motorcycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on a C road in York at 16:55 on Wednesday 16 May 2018. The 17-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Zip motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2018
- Wednesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Zip and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.97174, longitude -1.09536, in the YO30 postcode district and within the built-up area of York. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, York, YO30 6JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018120088233
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2000.
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DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in York, 2 February 2000
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Fiat Bravo crash on an unclassified road in York, 29 March 2004
12 m awayRef 2004120890839
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Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in York, 20 February 2007
19 m awayRef 2007120510535
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in York, 19 September 2018
25 m awayRef 2018121800287
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Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in York, 7 October 1995
31 m awayRef 1995122800393
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 25 March 1984
32 m awayRef 198412A029484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018120088233 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2018.