A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 9 February 2002 at 15:53 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 15:53 on Saturday 9 February 2002. The 53-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2002
- Saturday, 15:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.22379, longitude -1.12416, in the YO7 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
- 2002120400552
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1983.
Slight
Van crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 11 December 1983
22 m awayRef 198312D111183
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 5 April 1982
45 m awayRef 198212D030982
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 9 May 1995
112 m awayRef 1995121290270
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 20 July 1990
112 m awayRef 1990122010378
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 10 February 1988
206 m awayRef 1988128023908
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 2024
219 m awayRef 2024122401066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
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 2002120400552 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.