B6255 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 April 1995 at 03:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6255 in North Yorkshire at 03:35 on Saturday 1 April 1995. The 25-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 1995
- Saturday, 03:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20864, longitude -2.35873, in the LA6 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995120910096
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6255
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6477
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 15 March 1997
130 m awayRef 1997120740697
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 1996
164 m awayRef 1996121890345
Serious
Car crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 25 October 1981
164 m awayRef 198112B158181
Slight
Car crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 3 March 2006
170 m awayRef 2006120620528
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 18 August 2023
173 m awayRef 2023122300859
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 11 September 2021
223 m awayRef 2021122101267
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1995120910096 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 1995.