B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 December 2002 at 16:58 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 16:58 on Sunday 15 December 2002. A 65-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2002
- Sunday, 16:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.03868, longitude -2.02898, 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
- 2002123490546
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 17 November 2004
At the same spotRef 2004123220840
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 23 September 1988
At the same spotRef 1988128169353
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 2 July 1988
At the same spotRef 1988128113692
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 15 May 2001
At the same spotRef 2001121350580
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 6 May 1998
At the same spotRef 1998121270029
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 1986
At the same spotRef 1986126111095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2002123490546 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.