Serious B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 January 2007 at 18:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 18:30 on Tuesday 23 January 2007. The 74-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jan 2007
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.08002, longitude -1.74181, in the HG3 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007120230461
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 15 February 2015
43 m awayRef 2015120025441
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 18 January 2002
45 m awayRef 2002120180338
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 4 May 2024
54 m awayRef 2024122401035
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 27 August 2025
111 m awayRef 2025122501019
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 2014
113 m awayRef 2014120214913
Slight
BMW crash on the B6165 in North Yorkshire, 5 September 1998
114 m awayRef 1998122480475
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2007120230461 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 2007.