A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 25 February 2002 at 18:45 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 18:45 on Monday 25 February 2002. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2002
- Monday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96498, longitude -1.97101, in the BD23 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
- 2002120560863
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- 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
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2016.
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 4 March 2016
26 m awayRef 2016120038660
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 8 November 1982
51 m awayRef 198212B160482
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 11 December 1990
100 m awayRef 1990123450071
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 26 April 1997
100 m awayRef 1997121160319
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 9 May 1993
112 m awayRef 1993121290464
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 20 August 1994
141 m awayRef 1994122320098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
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 2002120560863 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.