A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 January 2012 at 01:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 01:05 on Sunday 1 January 2012. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.24555, longitude -0.78314, in the YO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pickering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8DY area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120000066
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 3 March 2008
9 m awayRef 2008120630400
Serious
Renault 11 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 13 November 1991
9 m awayRef 1991123170487
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 6 August 2003
9 m awayRef 2003122180561
Slight
Skoda Enyaq crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 24 February 2023
44 m awayRef 2023122300237
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 15 October 1982
46 m awayRef 198212D108882
Slight
Foden crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 13 October 2005
46 m awayRef 2005122860403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2012120000066 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 2012.