B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 October 2015 at 23:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 23:50 on Saturday 24 October 2015. A 25-year-old male passenger and a 27-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05862, longitude -2.02349, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120188979
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2011.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 November 2011
9 m awayRef 2011120191016
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 February 1990
63 m awayRef 1990121252190
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 14 December 1984
90 m awayRef 1984124206616
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 6 November 2008
113 m awayRef 2008120130477
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 25 December 2012
119 m awayRef 2012120216877
Serious
Scania crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 September 2010
121 m awayRef 2010120157049
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2015120188979 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.