A658 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 April 2001 at 11:36 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A658 in North Yorkshire at 11:36 on Saturday 14 April 2001. The 65-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort, a 91-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort and the 21-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2001
- Saturday, 11:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.91404, longitude -1.61784, 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
- 2001121040280
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 658
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1996.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A658 in North Yorkshire, 12 December 1996
At the same spotRef 1996123470910
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A658 in North Yorkshire, 3 November 1997
At the same spotRef 1997123071163
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A6580 in North Yorkshire, 1 March 1998
At the same spotRef 1998120600309
Slight
Volvo crash on the A658 in North Yorkshire, 10 May 1997
At the same spotRef 1997121300342
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A658 in North Yorkshire, 28 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025122501381
Serious
Audi Q3 crash on the A658 in North Yorkshire, 21 February 2017
29 m awayRef 2017120030426
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 91, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2001121040280 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 2001.