Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire HG3 on 2 December 2020 at 06:46 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 06:46 on Wednesday 2 December 2020. The 18-year-old female 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
- 2 Dec 2020
- Wednesday, 06:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99643, longitude -1.60698, in the HG3 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020122001218
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 66 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 11 February 1984
66 m awayRef 198412B011784
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 8 April 1981
215 m awayRef 198112B049081
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 November 1983
235 m awayRef 198312B132483
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 5 August 2010
329 m awayRef 2010120132415
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 1 April 1996
364 m awayRef 1996120920522
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 September 1991
364 m awayRef 1991122590032
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020122001218 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.