B6161 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 March 2000 at 15:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6161 in North Yorkshire at 15:40 on Tuesday 21 March 2000. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2000
- Tuesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9312, longitude -1.6451, in the LS21 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000120810573
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6161
- Road type
- Dual 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, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 12 January 1980
50 m awayRef 198012B004380
Serious
Van crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 12 October 1990
54 m awayRef 1990122850415
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 2025
75 m awayRef 2025122501256
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 5 October 2022
76 m awayRef 2022122201259
Slight
Car crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 25 June 1999
92 m awayRef 1999121760063
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 1993
100 m awayRef 1993121760819
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2000120810573 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 2000.