A168 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 June 2012 at 00:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire at 00:30 on Saturday 30 June 2012. The 47-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2012
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1904, longitude -1.36812, in the YO7 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012120105139
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 168
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 2004.
Serious
Volvo crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 29 September 2004
19 m awayRef 2004122730093
Serious
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 26 October 2010
23 m awayRef 2010120184738
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 3 February 2001
45 m awayRef 2001120340588
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 8 May 2005
45 m awayRef 2005121280679
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 9 June 2000
71 m awayRef 2000121610625
Slight
Car crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 22 September 1980
71 m awayRef 198012C105880
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2012120105139 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.