A168 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 September 2017 at 09:50 involving a Peugeot 3008
A Peugeot 3008 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire at 09:50 on Sunday 17 September 2017. The 41-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 3008 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2017
- Sunday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 3008 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25558, longitude -1.35445, in the YO7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hillside & Raskelf, North Yorkshire, YO7 2NP 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
- 2017120166809
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1448
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 2016.
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 16 December 2016
3 m awayRef 2016120226096
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on the B1448 in North Yorkshire, 30 August 2016
4 m awayRef 2016120157553
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 25 October 2013
4 m awayRef 2013120185245
Slight
Scania crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 2 February 2006
6 m awayRef 2006120330049
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 2011
6 m awayRef 2011120050003
Serious
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A168 in North Yorkshire, 3 September 2014
6 m awayRef 2014120150995
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 3008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 3008)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2017120166809 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.