A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 October 2006 at 03:04 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 03:04 on Wednesday 18 October 2006. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2006
- Wednesday, 03:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20671, longitude -0.31296, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006122910035
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2001.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 2 June 2001
71 m awayRef 2001121530791
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 16 July 2006
71 m awayRef 2006121970384
Slight
Van crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 5 February 1997
71 m awayRef 1997120360616
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 17 August 1980
110 m awayRef 198012D088580
Slight
Minibus crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 18 June 2004
114 m awayRef 2004121700105
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 24 July 1991
130 m awayRef 1991122050575
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2006122910035 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 2006.