B6268 crash in North Yorkshire on 11 January 2016 at 16:10 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire at 16:10 on Monday 11 January 2016. The 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 2016
- Monday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.27813, longitude -1.60161, in the DL8 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120006059
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6268
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 March 2008.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire, 30 March 2008
23 m awayRef 2008120900427
Fatal
Honda CRV crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire, 21 December 2002
37 m awayRef 2002123550645
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire, 25 April 2008
96 m awayRef 2008120015890
Slight
Van crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire, 7 January 1989
145 m awayRef 1989128235754
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 2002
195 m awayRef 2002122520722
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6268 in North Yorkshire, 7 March 1997
292 m awayRef 1997120660698
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016120006059 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 2016.