A senior police officer has revealed some disturbing data on vehicle crashes in North Yorkshire.
Motorcyclists travelling on main roads with 60 miles per hour limits are at significant risk.
Figures so far this year indicate an increase in casualties.
Here's Chief Inspector Tom Ibbetson:
"Around 25% of our killed and serious injury collisions, despite being less than 10% of road traffic and some of the other themes that are coming out they're clear that's 60 mile an hour road area is where we're seeing a high rate of collisions, often due to the speeds involved.
"And so that's why communities will see us in those locations and why and the risk based model. Sometimes we might not be in others as much as everyone would want us to be."
Chief Inspector Ibbetson says figures so far this year indicate an increase in casualties:
"Motorcycle casualties have been highlighted due to good weather this year in 2025. We are sadly seeing an increase in collisions overall from last year. We highlight the financial cost of a fatal collision is over £2 million according to the Department for Transport to the region. That's a significant financial burden.
"That's not the cost of policing, but to society. In 2023, 44 people lost their lives on North Yorkshire Roads. That reduced to 29 in 2024. This is by the Department for Transport Statistics. But unfortunately provisionally there has been an increase so far this year."
North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue say that on average, 455 people are killed or seriously injured on North Yorkshire's roads annually, with 417 serious injuries and 38 fatalities.


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