A167 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 December 2017 at 05:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A167 in North Yorkshire at 05:30 on Thursday 14 December 2017. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25027, longitude -1.41487, in the YO7 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
- 2017120222807
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 January 1981.
Serious
Van crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 19 January 1981
26 m awayRef 198112C007681
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 2007
46 m awayRef 2007121490496
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 8 December 2025
153 m awayRef 2025122501426
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 2 March 2017
156 m awayRef 2017120035642
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 20 February 1998
159 m awayRef 1998120510654
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 2018
163 m awayRef 2018120099632
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2017120222807 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.