A168 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 December 2008 at 00:47 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire at 00:47 on Friday 19 December 2008. The 51-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Defender and the 22-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2008
- Friday, 00:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06365, longitude -1.38957, in the YO51 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
- 2008120155577
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 168
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2007.
Slight
ERF crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 18 December 2007
At the same spotRef 2007123520058
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 26 November 2009
10 m awayRef 2009120204938
Slight
Nissan Primastar crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 14 January 2009
10 m awayRef 2009120007392
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 17 June 1981
40 m awayRef 198112B082981
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 1983
42 m awayRef 198312B048683
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 18 July 1991
50 m awayRef 1991121990071
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 2008120155577 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.