A6069 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 September 2020 at 20:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A6069 in North Yorkshire at 20:30 on Thursday 24 September 2020. The 21-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2020
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95834, longitude -2.04259, in the BD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skipton. 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
- 2020122000901
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6069
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 6 November 2023
At the same spotRef 2023122400068
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 24 August 2014
At the same spotRef 2014120144260
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 27 May 2020
At the same spotRef 2020122000510
Slight
Taxi crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 14 August 2014
1 m awayRef 2014120137902
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A56 in North Yorkshire, 13 November 2016
2 m awayRef 2016120205955
Serious
Dennis crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 15 November 2018
6 m awayRef 2018121900205
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2020122000901 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.