Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO18 on 8 September 2020 at 19:25 involving a Volvo S40
A Volvo S40 crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 19:25 on Tuesday 8 September 2020. The 49-year-old male driver and a 40-year-old female passenger were 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
- 8 Sep 2020
- Tuesday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.23782, longitude -0.84817, in the YO18 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020122000806
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 134 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1993.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 31 May 1993
134 m awayRef 1993121510371
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 28 July 1985
825 m awayRef 1985125227311
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 22 January 2000
902 m awayRef 2000120220419
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 29 March 1983
922 m awayRef 198312D022983
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 4 November 2005
961 m awayRef 2005123081099
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 2 September 2025
970 m awayRef 2025122500993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S40)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S40)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020122000806 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 2020.