Serious A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 October 2015 at 12:38 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 12:38 on Sunday 18 October 2015. The 94-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz was seriously injured and the 64-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 12:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96649, longitude -1.94707, 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
- 2015120184859
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 27 June 2015.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 27 June 2015
1 m awayRef 2015120108002
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 2015
2 m awayRef 2015120203554
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 2017
5 m awayRef 2017120214754
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 11 November 2003
43 m awayRef 2003123150675
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 9 July 2006
53 m awayRef 2006121900180
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 19 July 1981
107 m awayRef 198112B108981
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 94 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 94, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015120184859 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.