Serious A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 January 2012 at 12:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Mini First were involved in a crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 12:40 on Monday 30 January 2012. The 22-year-old female driver of the Mini First was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jan 2012
- Monday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Mini First
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.10561, longitude -2.36555, in the LA2 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120015565
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 31 May 2005
3 m awayRef 2005121510352
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 19 September 1998
9 m awayRef 1998122620572
Serious
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 8 February 1988
9 m awayRef 1988128022738
Slight
Van crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 5 April 1988
9 m awayRef 1988128057014
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 2007
16 m awayRef 2007121560242
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 11 January 2011
17 m awayRef 2011120005649
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Mini First
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini First)
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 2012120015565 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.