B6161 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 October 2022 at 14:40 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 crashed on the B6161 in North Yorkshire at 14:40 on Wednesday 5 October 2022. The 22-year-old 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
- 5 Oct 2022
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.93052, longitude -1.64518, in the LS21 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
- 2022122201259
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6161
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 2025.
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025122501256
Slight
Car crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 25 June 1999
21 m awayRef 1999121760063
Slight
Car crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 17 June 2020
55 m awayRef 2020122001020
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 13 November 1999
64 m awayRef 1999123170151
Slight
Car crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 2000
76 m awayRef 2000120810573
Serious
Van crash on the B6161 in North Yorkshire, 12 October 1990
78 m awayRef 1990122850415
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightAged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- 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 2022122201259 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.