B6161 crash in North Yorkshire on 28 August 2009 at 19:50 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 and a car were involved in a crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire at 19:50 on Friday 28 August 2009. The 44-year-old male driver of the Volvo V40 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2009
- Friday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V40 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95743, longitude -1.61028, in the HG3 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
- 2009120149786
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6161
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2009.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 4 October 2009
14 m awayRef 2009120172900
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 4 October 2025
25 m awayRef 2025122501140
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 1 June 2014
27 m awayRef 2014120088176
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B6451 in North Yorkshire, 28 September 1998
36 m awayRef 1998122710532
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 5 May 1990
36 m awayRef 1990121260007
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 12 October 1993
42 m awayRef 1993122850091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V40)
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 2009120149786 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 2009.