A162 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 December 2011 at 05:29 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A162 in North Yorkshire at 05:29 on Saturday 24 December 2011. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 05:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.84346, longitude -1.26481, in the LS24 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011120215972
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 162
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2007.
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 10 August 2007
20 m awayRef 2007122220101
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 26 August 1991
42 m awayRef 1991122380542
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 6 December 1992
76 m awayRef 1992123410461
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 21 August 1991
76 m awayRef 1991122330025
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 20 February 1997
133 m awayRef 1997120510286
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 30 April 1996
133 m awayRef 1996121210915
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2011120215972 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.