B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 February 2003 at 17:45 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 17:45 on Wednesday 19 February 2003. The 39-year-old female 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
- 19 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.02519, longitude -2.04881, 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
- 2003120500712
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 1994
At the same spotRef 1994122610126
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 19 February 1995
At the same spotRef 1995120500409
Serious
Leyland crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 8 January 1990
At the same spotRef 1990121233331
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 27 January 1985
28 m awayRef 1985125013014
Serious
Van crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 10 September 1979
45 m awayRef 197912B139179
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2006
50 m awayRef 2006121700284
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2003120500712 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 2003.