A1(M) crash in North Yorkshire on 21 October 2017 at 12:30 involving a Renault Twingo
A Renault Twingo crashed on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire at 12:30 on Saturday 21 October 2017. The 33-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2017
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Twingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00598, longitude -1.37501, in the HG5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boroughbridge & Claro, North Yorkshire, HG5 0ZU area accident hotspot. 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
- 2017120189016
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2017.
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7 m awayRef 2017120229739
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Mercedes E Class crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 12 January 2016
21 m awayRef 2016120006329
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Mazda 6 crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 18 July 2010
36 m awayRef 2010120119934
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Kia Rio crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 29 June 2013
48 m awayRef 2013120106580
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Car crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 1 July 1983
50 m awayRef 198312B077883
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Twingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Twingo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017120189016 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.