A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 27 November 2008 at 08:34 involving a car
A car crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 08:34 on Thursday 27 November 2008. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2008
- Thursday, 08:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.22496, longitude -1.11233, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120142383
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1984
51 m awayRef 198412D037884
Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 14 April 2024
154 m awayRef 2024122400517
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 15 May 2012
232 m awayRef 2012120077457
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 17 May 1981
240 m awayRef 198112D048281
Serious
Skoda Roomster crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 25 November 2010
261 m awayRef 2010120202976
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 25 January 2011
402 m awayRef 2011120013462
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, 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 2008120142383 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.