A MOTORCYCLE accident has claimed yet another life on the roads of North Yorkshire.

A 59-year-old motorcyclist from Sedbergh was killed in a single vehicle accident in the Yorkshire Dales yesterday afternoon. He was the 28th motorbiker to be killed on the roads of North Yorkshire this year.

A Tadcaster man was in a stable condition after an accident while riding pillion on a motorbike near Wetherby yesterday.

Meanwhile today, fog was causing problems in the county's roads, and traffic chaos was being predicted due to roadworks in Heslington, York.

The man killed in the Dales accident was riding a blue Yamaha Phaser motorcycle along the B6255 Hawes to Ingleton road.

The accident happened a mile outside Hawes towards Ingleton at 3.35pm. A police spokeswoman said the rider failed to negotiate a bend and was pronounced dead at the scene. In the Wetherby incident a 26-year-old from Tadcaster was taken to Harrogate District Hospital with serious injuries. Police believe the 900cc bike he was travelling on was in collision with the rear of a Volvo car in Walton Road, Thorp Arch. The rider also came off the bike, but was unhurt.

Morning fog is thought to have caused a number of minor accidents across the county today.

One motorist left the road on the A19 at Barlby near the junction with the A63 and collided with an object on the grass verge.

A motorcyclist died in a collision on the A164 near Beverley early today. He is thought to have been caught up in an accident with a lorry.

Updated: 10:46 Thursday, October 02, 2003