A1(M) crash in North Yorkshire on 11 February 2010 at 12:45 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 crashed on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire at 12:45 on Thursday 11 February 2010. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2010
- Thursday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00569, longitude -1.37425, in the HG5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boroughbridge & Claro, North Yorkshire, HG5 0ZU area accident hotspot. 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
- 2010120022331
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 July 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 4 July 1980
At the same spotRef 198012B088880
Serious
Volvo crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 8 August 2011
14 m awayRef 2011120133250
Fatal
Scania crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 28 December 2011
20 m awayRef 2011120217782
Serious
BMW Z3 crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 28 May 2007
20 m awayRef 2007121480338
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 6 June 2009
32 m awayRef 2009120095139
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 1 July 1983
40 m awayRef 198312B077883
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
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 2010120022331 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.