B6270 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 May 1998 at 11:48 involving a van
A van crashed on the B6270 in North Yorkshire at 11:48 on Monday 18 May 1998. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1998
- Monday, 11:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.38287, longitude -1.93068, in the DL11 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998121380342
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6270
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 95 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 2012.
Serious
Yamaha YZF 600 R crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 10 October 2012
95 m awayRef 2012120170590
Slight
Car crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 7 May 1988
100 m awayRef 1988128077052
Slight
Car crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 11 September 2020
112 m awayRef 2020122000935
Slight
Car crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 27 July 1984
143 m awayRef 198412C051584
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 21 February 1992
150 m awayRef 1992120520667
Slight
John Deere crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 22 December 1999
190 m awayRef 1999123560828
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1998121380342 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 1998.