A168 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 March 2007 at 14:40 involving a Land Rover Range Rover
A Land Rover Range Rover and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire at 14:40 on Monday 5 March 2007. The 44-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2007
- Monday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Range Rover and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00945, longitude -1.37282, in the HG5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boroughbridge & Claro, North Yorkshire, HG5 0ZU area accident hotspot. 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
- 2007120640292
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 168
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 17 September 1999
At the same spotRef 1999122600421
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 15 June 1999
At the same spotRef 1999121660323
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 1 February 2005
At the same spotRef 2005120320782
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 24 August 2012
1 m awayRef 2012120140949
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 11 October 2013
4 m awayRef 2013120176814
Serious
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 2013
8 m awayRef 2013120115785
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,628 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 44, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2007120640292 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.