A6055 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 July 2016 at 14:00 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75 and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire at 14:00 on Wednesday 6 July 2016. The 71-year-old male driver of the Rover 75, the 50-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Discovery and a 19-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Discovery were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2016
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 75 and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.03129, longitude -1.44961, in the HG5 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120119273
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6055
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2004.
Slight
Yamaha YN 50 Neos crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire, 14 December 2004
8 m awayRef 2004123490283
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire, 12 September 2019
16 m awayRef 2019121901322
Slight
Car crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire, 7 April 1980
31 m awayRef 198012B043680
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire, 17 August 2013
36 m awayRef 2013120141093
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire, 18 May 2014
45 m awayRef 2014120079901
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6055 in North Yorkshire, 10 September 2000
54 m awayRef 2000122540539
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 75)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2016120119273 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.