Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO61 on 12 December 2023 at 16:45 involving a Jaguar X Type
A motorcycle and a Jaguar X Type were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 16:45 on Tuesday 12 December 2023. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2023
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12031, longitude -1.18846, in the YO61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Easingwold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Easingwold, North Yorkshire, YO61 3AG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023122301423
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 23 November 2015
5 m awayRef 2015120208151
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 27 March 1988
17 m awayRef 1988128051953
Slight
Mini First crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 22 November 2024
61 m awayRef 2024122401288
Serious
Chevrolet Tacuma crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 January 2012
70 m awayRef 2012120007988
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 March 1981
100 m awayRef 198112A038581
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 August 2009
101 m awayRef 2009120140970
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023122301423 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.