Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO60 on 23 July 1997 at 15:00 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 15:00 on Wednesday 23 July 1997. A 70-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Carina was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 1997
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07923, longitude -1.02635, in the YO60 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997122040638
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- 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 1997122040638 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.