B6451 crash in North Yorkshire on 16 December 1990 at 22:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B6451 in North Yorkshire at 22:50 on Sunday 16 December 1990. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1990
- Sunday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98885, longitude -1.69037, in the HG3 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990123500461
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6451
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 22 June 1979
22 m awayRef 197912B095579
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 25 July 2006
41 m awayRef 2006122060867
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 29 March 1997
50 m awayRef 1997120880469
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 1998
50 m awayRef 1998121670302
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 25 October 2018
51 m awayRef 2018121900172
Fatal
Renault Trafic crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 16 August 2024
51 m awayRef 2024122400959
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1990123500461 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 1990.