A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 August 2012 at 15:54 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 15:54 on Sunday 12 August 2012. The 85-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
- 12 Aug 2012
- Sunday, 15:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98497, longitude -2.08396, 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
- 2012120133085
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 1999.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 1999
4 m awayRef 1999121700685
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 12 October 1997
28 m awayRef 1997122850415
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 June 1997
28 m awayRef 1997121690999
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 7 December 2010
35 m awayRef 2010120210339
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 22 February 2015
38 m awayRef 2015120029905
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 15 April 1980
50 m awayRef 198012B047780
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
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 2012120133085 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.