B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 25 August 2007 at 21:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 21:00 on Saturday 25 August 2007. A 26-year-old male passenger was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2007
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12702, longitude -1.48811, in the HG4 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007122370861
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 27 December 1979
20 m awayRef 197912C158679
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 22 September 1988
71 m awayRef 1988128168518
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 5 February 1979
78 m awayRef 197912C013279
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 May 2007
150 m awayRef 2007121290084
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 14 June 1994
158 m awayRef 1994121650636
Slight
Toyota Camry crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 7 November 1998
158 m awayRef 1998123110416
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007122370861 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.