A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 7 May 2016 at 15:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 15:25 on Saturday 7 May 2016. The 67-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2016
- Saturday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.97808, longitude -2.06983, in the BD23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mid Craven, North Yorkshire, BD23 3PS area accident hotspot. 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
- 2016120079321
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2019.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 January 2019
1 m awayRef 2019121900659
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 25 January 2013
1 m awayRef 2013120013228
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 26 February 2006
8 m awayRef 2006120570077
Slight
Scania crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 29 March 2007
8 m awayRef 2007120880153
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 2 January 2007
20 m awayRef 2007120020252
Serious
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 February 1979
27 m awayRef 197912B028979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2016120079321 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.