B6161 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 December 2003 at 18:00 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the B6161 in North Yorkshire at 18:00 on Sunday 21 December 2003. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.93749, longitude -1.64352, in the LS21 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003123550581
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6161
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 13 October 1985
36 m awayRef 1985125281768
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 5 September 2003
45 m awayRef 2003122480774
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 31 January 2002
100 m awayRef 2002120310096
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 1 August 1986
100 m awayRef 1986126147264
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 18 April 2009
106 m awayRef 2009120064504
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 16 April 1999
106 m awayRef 1999121060191
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2003123550581 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.