A162 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 September 2019 at 13:01 involving a Keeway Superlight motorcycle
A Keeway Superlight motorcycle crashed on the A162 in North Yorkshire at 13:01 on Sunday 1 September 2019. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2019
- Sunday, 13:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Keeway Superlight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87371, longitude -1.26437, in the LS24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, LS24 9PA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019121901595
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 162
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 2014.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 4 September 2014
14 m awayRef 2014120151272
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 2017
22 m awayRef 2017120122262
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 7 June 2014
23 m awayRef 2014120092204
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 14 June 2015
24 m awayRef 2015120099434
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 14 June 2016
24 m awayRef 2016120104495
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 7 December 2013
24 m awayRef 2013120211776
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Keeway Superlight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway Superlight)
- 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 2019121901595 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.