A1 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 September 2011 at 21:55 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
A lorry and a Vauxhall Tigra were involved in a crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire at 21:55 on Thursday 8 September 2011. The 25-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Tigra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2011
- Thursday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Vauxhall Tigra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.38753, longitude -1.65549, in the DL10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brompton-on-Swale. It is one of the crashes that make up the Catterick Village & Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, DL10 7HB area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011120152807
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 September 2014.
Serious
Yamaha FZ1 crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 25 September 2014
24 m awayRef 2014120164788
Serious
Nissan Prairie crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 17 November 1999
63 m awayRef 1999123210193
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 12 May 1979
63 m awayRef 197912C051579
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 7 September 1995
76 m awayRef 1995123490049
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 3 January 1980
81 m awayRef 198012C001180
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 26 November 1999
85 m awayRef 1999123300667
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Tigra)
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 2011120152807 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 2011.