A166 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 July 2001 at 01:00 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on the A166 in North Yorkshire at 01:00 on Sunday 29 July 2001. The 26-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2001
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98908, longitude -0.94149, in the YO41 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001122100044
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 166
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 6 April 1980
20 m awayRef 198012A078580
Slight
Honda VFR800F crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 31 August 2003
100 m awayRef 2003122430356
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 22 December 1996
100 m awayRef 1996123570167
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 28 January 2001
100 m awayRef 2001120280150
Fatal
Car crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 7 November 1984
100 m awayRef 1984124183757
Slight
Scania crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 28 April 2025
131 m awayRef 2025122500709
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
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 2001122100044 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.