Serious C road crash in North Yorkshire HG3 on 5 August 2010 at 19:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on a C road in North Yorkshire at 19:15 on Thursday 5 August 2010. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Aug 2010
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99605, longitude -1.60199, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120132415
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2010120132415 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.