Biker killed on A1237 at Clifton Moor was riding a stolen motorcycle (From York Press)

Biker killed on A1237 at Clifton Moor was riding a stolen motorcycle

9:03am Thursday 2nd September 2010 in News By Dan Bean, dan.bean@thepress.co.uk

THE biker killed on a York road this week was riding a stolen motorcycle, North Yorkshire Police have revealed.

A police spokesman said the 26-year-old York man was riding a Kawasaki ZX900 which had been stolen from an address in Rawcliffe the previous week.

The biker, who has not yet been named but is believed to be from Clifton, collided with an Audi A3 on the A1237, near the junction of the A19.

The vehicles were travelling in opposite directions when the accident occurred. Police also named the woman who died following a two-car collision on the A64 as 57-year-old Glennis Hackney, from Bury.

Mrs Hackney was returning from a family day out to Scarborough on Monday when the Volkswagen Golf she was a passenger in collided with a Peugeot 307.

Yesterday, her sister Gina Kaye paid tribute to “the head of the family”.

Mrs Kaye, 50, said: “She was the heart and soul to many people. She never said a bad word about anyone and everyone saw her as a mother.

“She helped a lot of people and did a lot for the church communities. She loved life and had fun. She knew lots and lots of people.”

Mrs Hackney and her husband, Peter, were also travelling with their grandsons Jordan, six, and Connor, eight, as well as Mrs Hackney’s sister Denise, 54.

Mrs Hackney was cut from the car by the emergency services and taken by air ambulance to Scarborough District Hospital, but later died from multiple injuries.

Police have also confirmed the identities of a 40-year-old motorcyclist and his 37-year-old passenger who were killed in a head-on collision on the A64 last Wednesday, as Dean and Helen Slater, from Bradford.

The couple were riding with a group of bikers from Boston Spa towards Tadcaster when they were thrown from their Yamaha R1 after colliding with a green Vauxhall Vectra at the slip-road to the A64 from the A162 near Tadcaster.

An air ambulance was called, but the couple were pronounced dead at the scene of the collision by paramedics.

Police officers were at Squires Café in Sherburn-in-Elmet last night looking for information regarding the accident.

Road policing officers visited the motorcyclists’ café with a mobile police station to speak to bikers and ask if they had seen any of those involved in the crash.

They were also giving out road safety advice to try to prevent another accident happening.