B6271 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 October 2017 at 14:39 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 crashed on the B6271 in North Yorkshire at 14:39 on Friday 20 October 2017. The 26-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2017
- Friday, 14:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.34867, longitude -1.48204, in the DL7 postcode district. 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
- 2017120188315
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6271
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 5 August 1993
36 m awayRef 1993122170097
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 8 November 1993
68 m awayRef 1993123120638
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 31 October 1997
72 m awayRef 1997123040551
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 20 December 2008
90 m awayRef 2008120156783
Slight
Leyland crash on the B1271 in North Yorkshire, 31 October 1997
132 m awayRef 1997123040268
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B6271 in North Yorkshire, 26 December 2021
145 m awayRef 2021122200006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017120188315 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.