B6162 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 August 2012 at 01:00 involving a Renault Master van
A Renault Master van crashed on the B6162 in North Yorkshire at 01:00 on Thursday 23 August 2012. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Master
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98163, longitude -1.55868, in the HG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harlow & St. Georges, North Yorkshire, HG2 0AX area accident hotspot. 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
- 2012120139933
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6162
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6162 in North Yorkshire, 11 December 1999
2 m awayRef 1999123450486
Slight
Car crash on the B6162 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 1986
2 m awayRef 1986126170308
Slight
Car crash on the B6162 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 1983
2 m awayRef 198312B106483
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B6162 in North Yorkshire, 21 December 2016
3 m awayRef 2016120229340
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B6162 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 2009
14 m awayRef 2009120157784
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6162 in North Yorkshire, 21 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198212B115382
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Master)
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 2012120139933 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.