A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 July 2018 at 01:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 01:00 on Sunday 15 July 2018. The 27-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
- 15 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12329, longitude -2.41178, in the LA2 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018121800055
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 4 September 2003
45 m awayRef 2003122470654
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 15 July 2000
85 m awayRef 2000121970811
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 2025
126 m awayRef 2025122500892
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 14 May 2004
233 m awayRef 2004121350581
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 5 November 1992
268 m awayRef 1992123100614
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 2 June 2013
275 m awayRef 2013120089092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018121800055 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.