A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 August 2001 at 14:08 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 14:08 on Sunday 5 August 2001. The 51-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2001
- Sunday, 14:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.19114, longitude -0.29872, in the YO14 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001122170420
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 165
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 29 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986126158488
Serious
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 26 July 1980
14 m awayRef 198012D076580
Serious
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 3 November 1980
32 m awayRef 198012D122780
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 31 December 2025
44 m awayRef 2025122600487
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 3 August 2025
47 m awayRef 2025122501127
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 31 August 2005
54 m awayRef 2005122431028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2001122170420 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.