A1 crash in North Yorkshire on 3 August 2003 at 03:16 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava crashed on the A1 in North Yorkshire at 03:16 on Sunday 3 August 2003. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 03:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Brava
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.40849, longitude -1.66025, in the DL10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Catterick Village & Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, DL10 7JL area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003122150110
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2020.
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 23 December 1994
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Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 1991
50 m awayRef 1991121670110
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 1990
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Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 2 June 1991
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
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 2003122150110 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.