B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 July 2019 at 13:18 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 13:18 on Sunday 14 July 2019. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2019
- Sunday, 13:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07621, longitude -2.27853, in the BD24 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019121900944
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6479
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 2005
13 m awayRef 2005121590059
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 29 August 1994
29 m awayRef 1994122410533
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 14 April 1979
29 m awayRef 197912B059379
Serious
Lorry crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 26 March 1988
29 m awayRef 1988128051156
Serious
Car crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 16 May 1980
44 m awayRef 198012B062780
Slight
Car crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 12 November 1984
62 m awayRef 1984124186938
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,150 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019121900944 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 2019.