A645 crash in North Yorkshire on 26 August 2002 at 21:45 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A645 in North Yorkshire at 21:45 on Monday 26 August 2002. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2002
- Monday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68735, longitude -1.08536, in the DN14 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002122380729
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 645
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 1979.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A645 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 14 September 1979
141 m awayRef 197916K090504
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2008
211 m awayRef 2008120048203
Slight
Car crash on the M62 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 1984
224 m awayRef 198412A093784
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 27 May 2011
233 m awayRef 2011120086386
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the M62 in North Yorkshire, 18 April 2010
275 m awayRef 2010120121715
Slight
Ford KA crash on the M62 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 13 August 2011
408 m awayRef 2011160C05301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2002122380729 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.