B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 9 April 1997 at 23:50 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 23:50 on Wednesday 9 April 1997. A 23-year-old male passenger and the 23-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 1997
- Wednesday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06737, longitude -1.87161, in the HG3 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
- 1997120990972
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2003.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 16 July 2003
At the same spotRef 2003121971124
Slight
MG MGB crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 October 1994
100 m awayRef 1994122820478
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 31 May 1998
141 m awayRef 1998121510195
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 7 June 1998
200 m awayRef 1998121580410
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 October 2013
210 m awayRef 2013120176650
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 1996
224 m awayRef 1996121940929
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 1997120990972 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 1997.