Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire DL6 on 22 December 1997 at 07:36 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 07:36 on Monday 22 December 1997. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 1997
- Monday, 07:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.34367, longitude -1.40314, in the DL6 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997123560072
- 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
- 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, 104 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 2011.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 7 January 2011
104 m awayRef 2011120003222
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2009
104 m awayRef 2009120103819
Slight
Triumph Daytona 955I crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 26 May 2012
108 m awayRef 2012120084168
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 8 July 1983
112 m awayRef 198312C059983
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 19 March 2022
115 m awayRef 2022122200521
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 10 May 2002
117 m awayRef 2002121300689
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 1997123560072 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.