A6108 crash in North Yorkshire on 7 December 2020 at 07:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A6108 in North Yorkshire at 07:35 on Monday 7 December 2020. The 21-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
- 7 Dec 2020
- Monday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20924, longitude -1.61004, in the HG4 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020122001243
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6108
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 27 March 2016
7 m awayRef 2016120053159
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 11 December 2011
19 m awayRef 2011120208336
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 18 June 2005
19 m awayRef 2005121690791
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 27 May 1999
29 m awayRef 1999121470566
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 5 July 2015
34 m awayRef 2015120113872
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 25 September 2011
39 m awayRef 2011120162866
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020122001243 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.