A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 March 2019 at 23:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 23:45 on Sunday 17 March 2019. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2019
- Sunday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99374, longitude -2.1722, in the BD23 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
- 2019121900404
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 April 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 10 April 1985
14 m awayRef 1985125055160
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 1981
39 m awayRef 198112B095381
Serious
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 15 June 1988
82 m awayRef 1988128102415
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 22 December 2002
88 m awayRef 2002123560413
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 March 1997
88 m awayRef 1997120770962
Fatal
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 1981
112 m awayRef 198112B055181
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019121900404 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 2019.