A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 December 2016 at 17:20 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75, a Fiat Panda and a Peugeot 407 were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 17:20 on Wednesday 21 December 2016. The 19-year-old male driver of the Fiat Panda and the 44-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 407 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 75 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25659, longitude -0.95931, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016120229341
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 July 2012.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 15 July 2012
4 m awayRef 2012120114900
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 25 July 2017
5 m awayRef 2017120130933
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 3 May 2010
6 m awayRef 2010120069917
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 10 April 2011
6 m awayRef 2011120057609
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 1999
6 m awayRef 1999121490498
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 25 July 2015
7 m awayRef 2015120127688
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 407
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Panda)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 407)
- 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 2016120229341 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.