A684 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 July 2017 at 12:00 involving a Skoda Roomster
A Skoda Roomster and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire at 12:00 on Sunday 30 July 2017. The 77-year-old male driver of the Skoda Roomster was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2017
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Roomster and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.30872, longitude -1.82658, in the DL8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leyburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leyburn & Middleham, North Yorkshire, DL8 5FD area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017120134333
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 684
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 August 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 14 August 1983
12 m awayRef 198312C068383
Fatal
Land Rover Range Rover Velar crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 28 November 2025
17 m awayRef 2025122600150
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 12 September 1983
26 m awayRef 198312C074883
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 31 October 2018
38 m awayRef 2018121800455
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 16 December 1992
45 m awayRef 1992123510686
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 10 October 1996
45 m awayRef 1996122840375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Roomster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Roomster)
- 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 2017120134333 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.