A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 September 2022 at 20:22 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa, a Vauxhall Crossland and a Suzuki Alto were involved in a crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 20:22 on Monday 5 September 2022. The 22-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa, the 51-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Crossland and a 27-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Crossland were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2022
- Monday, 20:22
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.23962, longitude -0.7616, in the YO18 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022122200977
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 27 February 2025
1 m awayRef 2025122500336
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 12 November 2023
10 m awayRef 2023122301179
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 28 February 1990
68 m awayRef 1990120600008
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1989
93 m awayRef 1989128339710
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 20 October 2016
97 m awayRef 2016120192075
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 1979
104 m awayRef 197912D100779
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Crossland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Crossland)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Crossland)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2022122200977 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 2022.