A645 crash in North Yorkshire on 7 February 2018 at 18:33 involving a Volvo S40
A Volvo S40 crashed on the A645 in North Yorkshire at 18:33 on Wednesday 7 February 2018. The 37-year-old male 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
- 7 Feb 2018
- Wednesday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72621, longitude -0.99028, in the YO8 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018120022261
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 645
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 January 2013.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 30 January 2013
4 m awayRef 2013120016704
Fatal
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 7 January 2023
86 m awayRef 2023122300131
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 2014
185 m awayRef 2014120058176
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 2022
200 m awayRef 2022122200573
Serious
Scania crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 30 September 2005
220 m awayRef 2005122730110
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A645 in North Yorkshire, 5 February 2012
287 m awayRef 2012120019199
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S40)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018120022261 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 2018.