A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 13 December 2014 at 12:17 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 12:17 on Saturday 13 December 2014. The 80-year-old male driver and a 77-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 12:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.23673, longitude -1.22072, 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
- 2014120215162
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 June 2023.
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 20 June 2023
25 m awayRef 2023122300979
Slight
Iveco crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 4 September 2000
36 m awayRef 2000122480680
Slight
Triumph Bonneville crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 23 October 2022
43 m awayRef 2022122201323
Serious
Volkswagen crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 23 December 2022
53 m awayRef 2022122201515
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 10 October 2014
108 m awayRef 2014120175094
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 24 October 1991
139 m awayRef 1991122980373
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- 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 2014120215162 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.