B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 March 2020 at 00:01 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 00:01 on Sunday 1 March 2020. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2020
- Sunday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.09324, longitude -2.27379, in the BD24 postcode district. 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
- 2020122100181
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6479
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a fatal crash on 11 August 2012.
Fatal
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 11 August 2012
3 m awayRef 2012120132595
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 30 October 1996
104 m awayRef 1996123040637
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 28 August 2014
151 m awayRef 2014120146803
Slight
Car crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 15 March 1980
166 m awayRef 198012B033180
Serious
Peugeot Vivacity crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 22 July 2007
241 m awayRef 2007122030069
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 20 December 1991
266 m awayRef 1991123540150
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- 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
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020122100181 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.