Serious A171 crash in North Yorkshire on 16 March 2016 at 09:15 involving a Fiat Ducato van
A Fiat Ducato van, a Nissan NV200 van and a car were involved in a crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire at 09:15 on Wednesday 16 March 2016. The 31-year-old female driver of the Nissan NV200 van was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver of the Fiat Ducato van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2016
- Wednesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Ducato and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.46569, longitude -0.77137, in the YO21 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120045944
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2016.
Slight
Mercedes CLC Class crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 2016
3 m awayRef 2016120049365
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 8 October 2021
5 m awayRef 2021122101434
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 9 June 2018
17 m awayRef 2018120105580
Serious
Renault Modus crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 2008
18 m awayRef 2008120041775
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 16 January 1979
19 m awayRef 197912D004779
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 21 December 1999
25 m awayRef 1999123550294
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Ducato
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,287 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan NV200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Ducato)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan NV200)
- 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 2016120045944 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.