B6478 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 January 2017 at 16:05 involving a Honda CRV
A Honda CRV crashed on the B6478 in North Yorkshire at 16:05 on Thursday 12 January 2017. The 88-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2017
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00382, longitude -2.30968, in the BD23 postcode district. 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
- 2017120006610
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6478
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 106 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 1995.
Slight
Ford crash on the B6478 in North Yorkshire, 10 July 1995
106 m awayRef 1995121910847
Serious
Car crash on the B6478 in North Yorkshire, 14 October 1988
106 m awayRef 1988128182818
Serious
Car crash on the B6478 in North Yorkshire, 16 January 1979
111 m awayRef 197912B010379
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 25 December 2016
223 m awayRef 2016120231314
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6478 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 2001
307 m awayRef 2001123200079
Slight
Van crash on the B6478 in North Yorkshire, 20 March 1979
353 m awayRef 197912B045479
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017120006610 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 2017.