A6068 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 March 2017 at 16:57 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Kia Picanto were involved in a crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire at 16:57 on Thursday 23 March 2017. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 16:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.89474, longitude -2.01929, in the BD20 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
- 2017120049188
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6068
- 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 77 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1996.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 31 December 1996
77 m awayRef 1996123660072
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 2005
138 m awayRef 2005121760814
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 10 February 1999
150 m awayRef 1999120410368
Serious
Peugeot 108 crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 15 September 2016
167 m awayRef 2016120168259
Serious
Car crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 12 June 1984
174 m awayRef 198412B056884
Serious
Car crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 1 April 1986
183 m awayRef 1986126056431
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2017120049188 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.