Serious A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 March 2010 at 16:10 involving a Jaguar Sovereign
A Jaguar Sovereign, a car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 16:10 on Friday 5 March 2010. The 59-year-old male driver of the Jaguar Sovereign was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Mar 2010
- Friday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Jaguar Sovereign and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.14874, longitude -2.47581, in the LA6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bentham & Ingleton, North Yorkshire, LA6 3DA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120034629
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- C
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 2015
9 m awayRef 2015120072231
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 7 April 2002
54 m awayRef 2002120970248
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 24 August 2020
63 m awayRef 2020122000768
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 1988
72 m awayRef 1988128102767
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 1986
80 m awayRef 1986126171253
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 20 April 1990
94 m awayRef 1990121140001
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar Sovereign
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar Sovereign)
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 2010120034629 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.