A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 December 2007 at 21:15 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 21:15 on Thursday 6 December 2007. The 25-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar X Type and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99131, longitude -2.1502, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007123400587
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 30 March 2008
10 m awayRef 2008120900280
Serious
Volkswagen Corrado crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 6 January 2001
78 m awayRef 2001120060635
Serious
Lorry crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 1981
112 m awayRef 198112B086881
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 6 September 2004
112 m awayRef 2004122500901
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 15 April 1992
150 m awayRef 1992121060508
Serious
Renault crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 31 May 1993
155 m awayRef 1993121510125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,099 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2007123400587 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.