A168 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 September 2017 at 19:45 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A168 in North Yorkshire at 19:45 on Tuesday 19 September 2017. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2017
- Tuesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94694, longitude -1.38761, in the LS22 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
- 2017120169509
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 21 December 2002
36 m awayRef 2002123550775
Serious
Honda VFR750F crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 20 November 1990
36 m awayRef 1990123240291
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 27 June 2005
37 m awayRef 2005121800533
Slight
Bus crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 1 August 1980
47 m awayRef 198012B103280
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 24 May 1997
55 m awayRef 1997121440698
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 16 January 1979
55 m awayRef 197912B009979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017120169509 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.