A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 9 April 2008 at 12:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 12:30 on Wednesday 9 April 2008. The 21-year-old male driver of the car and the 36-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2008
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.24466, longitude -0.49758, in the YO13 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008121000244
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 28 May 2009
At the same spotRef 2009120089450
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 2007
14 m awayRef 2007122610526
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 26 October 1988
40 m awayRef 1988128190851
Serious
Citroen Relay crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 20 March 2007
50 m awayRef 2007120790030
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 22 February 2019
61 m awayRef 2019121900594
Serious
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 28 September 2001
117 m awayRef 2001122710729
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2008121000244 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.