Serious B6274 crash in North Yorkshire on 9 May 2022 at 13:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B6274 in North Yorkshire at 13:00 on Monday 9 May 2022. The 31-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
- 9 May 2022
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50899, longitude -1.73227, in the DL11 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022122200770
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6274
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B6274 in North Yorkshire, 26 August 1989
72 m awayRef 1989121042861
Slight
Car crash on the B6274 in North Yorkshire, 19 December 1988
93 m awayRef 1988128224600
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B6274 in North Yorkshire, 20 August 1995
177 m awayRef 1995122320295
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 May 1979
268 m awayRef 197912C051979
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 27 September 1981
319 m awayRef 198112C111681
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6274 in North Yorkshire, 21 October 1984
365 m awayRef 1984124172533
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- 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 2022122200770 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 2022.