B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 May 2023 at 10:30 involving a Honda CBR motorcycle
A Honda CBR motorcycle crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 10:30 on Saturday 20 May 2023. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2023
- Saturday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.17615, longitude -2.33129, 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
- 2023122300533
- 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 June 2015.
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 11 June 2015
5 m awayRef 2015120097760
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 2010
8 m awayRef 2010120117554
Serious
Honda CB crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 16 August 2025
14 m awayRef 2025122501188
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 1 August 2014
20 m awayRef 2014120128871
Serious
Volkswagen crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 14 May 2001
27 m awayRef 2001121340650
Slight
Scania crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 23 October 2014
30 m awayRef 2014120182962
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2023122300533 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 2023.