A6108 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 September 2017 at 09:15 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 crashed on the A6108 in North Yorkshire at 09:15 on Tuesday 5 September 2017. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2017
- Tuesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.21196, longitude -1.62327, in the HG4 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
- 2017120158981
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6108
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 113 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1983
113 m awayRef 198312C061783
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 1 September 2022
200 m awayRef 2022122201010
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 29 August 2015
238 m awayRef 2015120151946
Slight
Car crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 1979
313 m awayRef 197912C138579
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 23 December 2011
313 m awayRef 2011120215632
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 2018
400 m awayRef 2018121800054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 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 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
- 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 2017120158981 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.