Serious B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 July 2025 at 16:50 involving a Honda CBR motorcycle
A Honda CBR motorcycle crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 16:50 on Wednesday 30 July 2025. The 66-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
- 30 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.157, longitude -2.30912, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025122501206
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2024.
Slight
BMW S 1000 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 7 September 2024
13 m awayRef 2024122401176
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 7 January 2022
42 m awayRef 2022122200141
Slight
Car crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 1988
282 m awayRef 1988128095581
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 18 October 2003
284 m awayRef 2003122910916
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 9 July 2022
532 m awayRef 2022122201011
Serious
Car crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 25 September 1988
542 m awayRef 1988128170673
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 66, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025122501206 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 2025.