C road crash in North Yorkshire DL8 on 12 December 2014 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in North Yorkshire at 21:00 on Friday 12 December 2014. A 44-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2014
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.2766, longitude -1.66371, in the DL8 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
- 2014120215035
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 228 metres away, was a fatal crash on 25 March 1999.
Fatal
Renault 25 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 25 March 1999
228 m awayRef 1999120840610
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 7 September 2010
334 m awayRef 2010120154573
Slight
Van crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 22 August 2008
541 m awayRef 2008120087137
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 29 July 1980
563 m awayRef 198012C081980
Serious
Scania crash on the B1249 in North Yorkshire, 7 March 2001
769 m awayRef 2001120660066
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 July 1994
1.0 km awayRef 1994122000905
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014120215035 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 2014.