B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 February 2015 at 03:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 03:00 on Sunday 15 February 2015. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2015
- Sunday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07998, longitude -1.74115, in the HG3 postcode district. 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
- 2015120025441
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2024.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 4 May 2024
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Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 23 January 2007
43 m awayRef 2007120230461
Slight
BMW crash on the B6165 in North Yorkshire, 5 September 1998
72 m awayRef 1998122480475
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B6165 in North Yorkshire, 4 November 1998
72 m awayRef 1998123080249
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 27 August 2025
74 m awayRef 2025122501019
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 2014
74 m awayRef 2014120214913
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015120025441 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 2015.