Serious B6285 crash in North Yorkshire on 27 July 2007 at 01:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6285 in North Yorkshire at 01:05 on Friday 27 July 2007. 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
- 27 Jul 2007
- Friday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.28177, longitude -1.57497, in the DL8 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007122080030
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6285
- 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, 70 metres away, was a fatal crash on 28 March 1989.
Fatal
Van crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 28 March 1989
70 m awayRef 1989128283057
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 24 November 2004
76 m awayRef 2004123290529
Slight
Car crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 15 May 1989
76 m awayRef 1989128313589
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 30 August 2012
106 m awayRef 2012120144543
Serious
Car crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 1 February 1979
110 m awayRef 197912C011879
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6285 in North Yorkshire, 27 August 1996
148 m awayRef 1996122400764
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2007122080030 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.