A66(M) crash in North Yorkshire on 14 May 2005 at 19:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire at 19:50 on Saturday 14 May 2005. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2005
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.51037, longitude -1.59283, in the DL3 postcode district. 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
- 2005121340855
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 66
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 June 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A66 in North Yorkshire, 22 June 1984
20 m awayRef 198412C036384
Fatal
Nissan Sunny crash on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire, 8 April 2006
63 m awayRef 2006120980506
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A66 in North Yorkshire, 27 December 2002
72 m awayRef 2002123610083
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A66 in North Yorkshire, 23 September 1991
72 m awayRef 1991122660266
Serious
Honda crash on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire, 4 January 1998
85 m awayRef 1998120040311
Slight
Car crash on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire, 15 August 1988
85 m awayRef 1988128143624
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 2005121340855 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 2005.