Serious A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 31 October 2005 at 05:45 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 crashed on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 05:45 on Monday 31 October 2005. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Oct 2005
- Monday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20842, longitude -0.31289, in the YO14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hunmanby & Sherburn, North Yorkshire, YO14 0EH area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005123040068
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 165
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2025.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 19 August 2025
13 m awayRef 2025122501282
Slight
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 30 December 1979
41 m awayRef 197912D142979
Slight
Leyland crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 13 January 1992
70 m awayRef 1992120130471
Slight
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 5 October 2005
73 m awayRef 2005122780008
Serious
Van crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 28 May 1982
91 m awayRef 198212D049582
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 18 May 2005
100 m awayRef 2005121381003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
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 2005123040068 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.