A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 December 2003 at 06:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 06:15 on Wednesday 17 December 2003. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99364, longitude -2.1586, 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
- 2003123510056
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2002.
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 26 January 2002
50 m awayRef 2002120260507
Serious
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 1 February 1981
51 m awayRef 198112B018181
Fatal
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 22 July 1983
61 m awayRef 198312B085483
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 2 January 2004
61 m awayRef 2004120020834
Slight
Skoda Roomster crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 17 August 2015
63 m awayRef 2015120143805
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 3 April 2010
63 m awayRef 2010120051082
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2003123510056 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.