A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 March 2016 at 14:40 involving a Volvo V50
A Volvo V50 and a car were involved in a crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 14:40 on Friday 4 March 2016. The 45-year-old male driver of the Volvo V50 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2016
- Friday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V50 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96518, longitude -1.97082, 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
- 2016120038660
- 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
- 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, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2002.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 25 February 2002
26 m awayRef 2002120560863
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 8 November 1982
63 m awayRef 198212B160482
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 9 May 1993
99 m awayRef 1993121290464
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 11 December 1990
114 m awayRef 1990123450071
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 26 April 1997
114 m awayRef 1997121160319
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 20 August 1994
136 m awayRef 1994122320098
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V50
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V50)
- 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 2016120038660 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.