B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 28 January 2012 at 06:26 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 06:26 on Saturday 28 January 2012. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2012
- Saturday, 06:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12521, longitude -1.46045, in the HG4 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
- 2012120014306
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 1979.
Slight
Van crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 26 March 1979
9 m awayRef 197912C033079
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 October 1985
19 m awayRef 1985125277892
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 2022
48 m awayRef 2022122201125
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 October 1991
56 m awayRef 1991122840673
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 5 May 2013
60 m awayRef 2013120071773
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 7 May 1985
70 m awayRef 1985125072080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2012120014306 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.