A174 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 December 2002 at 21:04 involving an Audi Coupe
An Audi Coupe crashed on the A174 in North Yorkshire at 21:04 on Monday 23 December 2002. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2002
- Monday, 21:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi Coupe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5014, longitude -0.66886, in the YO21 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002123570819
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 174
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 26 June 2009
51 m awayRef 2009120108043
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 22 May 2024
52 m awayRef 2024122400714
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 30 October 2010
63 m awayRef 2010120187154
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 28 December 2008
63 m awayRef 2008120161019
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 1 September 2011
72 m awayRef 2011120148160
Slight
Car crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 1979
85 m awayRef 197912D069979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,226 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Coupe)
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 2002123570819 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.