A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 September 2018 at 12:35 involving a Fiat Tipo
A Fiat Tipo and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 12:35 on Saturday 1 September 2018. The 26-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2018
- Saturday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Tipo and Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13047, longitude -1.51147, in the HG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripon Minster & Moorside, North Yorkshire, HG4 1QX area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018121800246
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6265
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 15 January 2016
5 m awayRef 2016126009116
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 12 February 2013
8 m awayRef 2013120024101
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 6 May 2011
8 m awayRef 2011120073640
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1250 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 2013
9 m awayRef 2013120080252
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 2015
12 m awayRef 2015120072341
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 17 February 2015
16 m awayRef 2015120026845
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Tipo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 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 2018121800246 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 2018.