Serious B6164 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 April 2020 at 19:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6164 in North Yorkshire at 19:30 on Monday 6 April 2020. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Apr 2020
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95709, longitude -1.40249, in the LS22 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020122000463
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6164
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2025.
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B6164 in North Yorkshire, 25 May 2025
35 m awayRef 2025122500690
Slight
Car crash on the B6164 in North Yorkshire, 18 March 2005
58 m awayRef 2005120770980
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B664 in North Yorkshire, 14 February 1997
115 m awayRef 1997120450086
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6164 in North Yorkshire, 10 September 1997
127 m awayRef 1997122530761
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the B6164 in North Yorkshire, 26 November 2006
253 m awayRef 2006123300199
Slight
Car crash on the B6164 in North Yorkshire, 28 January 2002
332 m awayRef 2002120281059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020122000463 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 2020.