B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 May 2012 at 14:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 14:50 on Tuesday 29 May 2012. The 76-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2012
- Tuesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0054, longitude -2.04743, in the BD23 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120086183
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 May 2012.
Serious
Aprilia crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 26 May 2012
7 m awayRef 2012120084114
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 4 July 2010
9 m awayRef 2010120110568
Fatal
Lorry crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 June 1983
11 m awayRef 198312B069683
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 31 August 1983
11 m awayRef 198312B099883
Slight
Minibus crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 6 July 1982
14 m awayRef 198212B089182
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 20 February 2006
24 m awayRef 2006120510783
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2012120086183 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.