Serious B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 July 2015 at 16:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 16:15 on Thursday 30 July 2015. The 92-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 2015
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06461, longitude -1.92612, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120131297
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 107 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 July 2007.
Serious
MG TF crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 21 July 2007
107 m awayRef 2007122020014
Slight
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 2018
150 m awayRef 2018121800451
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 1980
173 m awayRef 198012B050080
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 2016
184 m awayRef 2016120063567
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 22 April 2020
267 m awayRef 2020122000419
Serious
Peugeot 806 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 21 November 2003
267 m awayRef 2003123250928
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 92 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 92, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2015120131297 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.