A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 September 2002 at 15:52 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 15:52 on Saturday 21 September 2002. The 52-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2002
- Saturday, 15:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.23902, longitude -0.76018, in the YO18 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
- 2002122640547
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2016.
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 1979
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1989
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Slight
Volvo crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 15 October 2017
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 23 April 2023
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 5 September 2022
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 2002122640547 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.