B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 December 2020 at 17:49 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 17:49 on Monday 14 December 2020. The 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2020
- Monday, 17:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11742, longitude -1.42186, in the YO51 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
- 2020122100066
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2009.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 June 2009
4 m awayRef 2009120097211
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 January 2018
6 m awayRef 2018120005237
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 26 February 2024
7 m awayRef 2024122400278
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 21 June 2010
10 m awayRef 2010120101527
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 25 October 2010
10 m awayRef 2010120184244
Slight
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 1988
18 m awayRef 1988128127620
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020122100066 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.