Serious B6271 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 January 2010 at 18:46 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the B6271 in North Yorkshire at 18:46 on Friday 29 January 2010. The 71-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jan 2010
- Friday, 18:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.35007, longitude -1.48303, in the DL7 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120015751
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6271
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 26 December 2021
26 m awayRef 2021122200006
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 12 December 1996
58 m awayRef 1996123470233
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 20 December 2008
81 m awayRef 2008120156783
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 4 October 2002
104 m awayRef 2002122770880
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 20 October 2017
170 m awayRef 2017120188315
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 8 November 1993
170 m awayRef 1993123120638
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 2010120015751 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 2010.