C road crash in North Yorkshire HG3 on 7 May 2017 at 15:10 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 crashed on a C road in North Yorkshire at 15:10 on Sunday 7 May 2017. The 79-year-old male driver 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
- 7 May 2017
- Sunday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.10774, longitude -1.78531, in the HG3 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
- 2017120078397
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 191 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 December 2004.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 9 December 2004
191 m awayRef 2004123440244
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1993
199 m awayRef 1993121740794
Serious
Volkswagen Bora crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 12 August 2016
405 m awayRef 2016120145258
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 September 2018
671 m awayRef 2018121800248
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 1 February 2006
744 m awayRef 2006120320136
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 2 August 1981
902 m awayRef 198112B108081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- 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
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V40)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017120078397 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.