Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire LA2 on 18 January 2002 at 23:30 involving a Land Rover 90
A Land Rover 90 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 23:30 on Friday 18 January 2002. The 33-year-old male driver of the Land Rover 90 and a 34-year-old male passenger in the Land Rover 90 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2002
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover 90 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11435, longitude -2.41912, in the LA2 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002120180901
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 224 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1997.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 7 March 1997
224 m awayRef 1997120660444
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 6 May 1996
316 m awayRef 1996121270050
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 10 December 2001
361 m awayRef 2001123440585
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 1992
403 m awayRef 1992121030286
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 31 July 1983
470 m awayRef 198312B089583
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 3 June 2008
492 m awayRef 2008120038521
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover 90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover 90)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover 90)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2002120180901 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 2002.