B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 June 2008 at 00:25 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 00:25 on Monday 23 June 2008. A 28-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
- 23 Jun 2008
- Monday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1264, longitude -1.4696, 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
- 2008120050581
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 1991.
Serious
ERF crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 4 September 1991
41 m awayRef 1991122470399
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 22 May 1996
41 m awayRef 1996121430773
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 2006
41 m awayRef 2006121220934
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 25 April 1991
57 m awayRef 1991121150081
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 15 February 1996
61 m awayRef 1996120460143
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 25 October 1994
61 m awayRef 1994122980729
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2008120050581 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 2008.