A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 March 2015 at 18:50 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 18:50 on Sunday 29 March 2015. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2015
- Sunday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.22662, longitude -1.13498, in the YO7 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120051238
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 21 December 1980
9 m awayRef 198012D141480
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 26 August 1981
34 m awayRef 198112D094381
Serious
Volvo 345 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 14 November 1991
58 m awayRef 1991123180539
Serious
Van crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 6 November 1981
60 m awayRef 198112D123181
Slight
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 16 June 2007
81 m awayRef 2007121670328
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 14 December 1979
112 m awayRef 197912D137079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 2015120051238 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.