B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 7 March 2003 at 14:55 involving a Porsche Boxster
A Porsche Boxster crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 14:55 on Friday 7 March 2003. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2003
- Friday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche Boxster
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.03418, longitude -2.03966, 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
- 2003120660598
- 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
- 40 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 98 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 February 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 February 1979
98 m awayRef 197912B025179
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 4 December 2003
100 m awayRef 2003123380359
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 27 October 1985
100 m awayRef 1985125293396
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 26 February 2017
113 m awayRef 2017120033326
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 April 1999
117 m awayRef 1999121010289
Serious
Kia Stonic crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 May 2025
121 m awayRef 2025122500779
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Boxster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol and LPG
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche Boxster)
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 2003120660598 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.