B1263 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 July 2016 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a taxi were involved in a crash on the B1263 in North Yorkshire at 15:00 on Friday 15 July 2016. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2016
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and taxi
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.41624, longitude -1.55977, in the DL7 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
- 2016120125448
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1263
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2025.
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Serious
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 44, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2016120125448 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.