B6255 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 March 2008 at 12:19 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6255 in North Yorkshire at 12:19 on Friday 21 March 2008. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2008
- Friday, 12:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20683, longitude -2.36379, in the LA6 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
- 2008120810232
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6255
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2009.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 25 May 2009
58 m awayRef 2009120087682
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 2 December 2008
67 m awayRef 2008120145780
Serious
Hyundai Accent crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 16 January 2018
101 m awayRef 2018120008530
Serious
Aprilia RS 125 crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 7 August 2023
115 m awayRef 2023122300974
Serious
Car crash on the B6255 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 2016
240 m awayRef 2016120094042
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 18 August 2023
252 m awayRef 2023122300859
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 2008120810232 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.