A168 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 January 2017 at 10:37 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van crashed on the A168 in North Yorkshire at 10:37 on Sunday 29 January 2017. The 35-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
- 29 Jan 2017
- Sunday, 10:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05637, longitude -1.38855, in the YO51 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
- 2017120016210
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 168
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 26 November 1985
19 m awayRef 1985125360354
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 25 June 1992
24 m awayRef 1992121770483
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 15 March 1984
42 m awayRef 198412B020884
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 10 January 2022
45 m awayRef 2022122200032
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 23 November 1979
57 m awayRef 197912B185979
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 26 November 1982
66 m awayRef 198212B176982
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017120016210 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.