A163 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 October 2013 at 19:00 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A163 in North Yorkshire at 19:00 on Monday 21 October 2013. The 38-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2013
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81839, longitude -0.98707, in the YO8 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013120182995
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 163
- 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
- C
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2021.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A163 in North Yorkshire, 29 June 2021
3 m awayRef 2021122101011
Slight
Car crash on the A163 in North Yorkshire, 20 August 1980
5 m awayRef 198012A147080
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A163 in North Yorkshire, 22 July 1981
7 m awayRef 198112A119881
Serious
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 1984
8 m awayRef 198412A069984
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A163 in North Yorkshire, 12 August 2021
13 m awayRef 2021122100900
Serious
Car crash on the A163 in North Yorkshire, 22 February 1979
14 m awayRef 197912A033279
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2013120182995 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 2013.