B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 October 2003 at 23:04 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 23:04 on Saturday 18 October 2003. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2003
- Saturday, 23:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1588, longitude -2.31222, in the BD24 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
- 2003122910916
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6479
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 243 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 2022.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 7 January 2022
243 m awayRef 2022122200141
Slight
BMW S 1000 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 7 September 2024
272 m awayRef 2024122401176
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 30 July 2025
284 m awayRef 2025122501206
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 18 July 2004
498 m awayRef 2004122000548
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 10 June 2025
502 m awayRef 2025122500937
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 19 July 2014
545 m awayRef 2014120119230
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2003122910916 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.