B6480 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 December 2008 at 22:18 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 and a car were involved in a crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire at 22:18 on Friday 12 December 2008. The 19-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 205 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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2008
- Friday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 205 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11928, longitude -2.44671, in the LA2 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
- 2008120152040
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6480
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 303 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 6 December 2000
303 m awayRef 2000123410073
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 13 April 2007
331 m awayRef 2007121030070
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 1991
402 m awayRef 1991123470449
Slight
Minibus crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 5 April 1989
502 m awayRef 1989128288365
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 3 July 2004
691 m awayRef 2004121850201
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 18 October 2002
701 m awayRef 2002122910127
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 2008120152040 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.