A661 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 September 2010 at 00:48 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the A661 in North Yorkshire at 00:48 on Saturday 18 September 2010. The 20-year-old male driver, a 23-year-old female passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2010
- Saturday, 00:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96804, longitude -1.45027, in the HG5 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
- 2010120161177
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 661
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2016.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 11 January 2016
37 m awayRef 2016120005731
Slight
Car crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 14 January 1979
45 m awayRef 197912B010479
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 5 December 2007
61 m awayRef 2007123390495
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 21 June 1999
80 m awayRef 1999121721023
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 18 April 1998
89 m awayRef 1998121080145
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 15 February 2000
89 m awayRef 2000120460306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
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
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2010120161177 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.