FOI 0176-2025/26- Road traffic collisions

Request:

Q1. I am a resident of Scotton and I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) regarding road safety and serious accidents on the following roads:

 - the B6165 between Knaresborough and Ripley

- roads leading to, and within, the villages of Scotton, Lingerfield, Brearton, Farnham, and Scriven

Q2. Specifically, I request the following:the number and nature of reported road traffic collisions (RTCs), including:

- those resulting in injuries or fatalities on these roads for the past 10 years

Q3. Details of any road safety measures, interventions, assessments, or recommendations applicable to these routes during the same period

Q4. Any available analysis or reports concerning accident causation factors, trends, or identified high-risk locations within the specified areas

Q5. Information in any requested, proposed, or planned road safety improvements for the roads within the specified area

Response: 

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.

I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.

Q1 & Q2.Please see the table below showing the number of RTC’s between 29 May 2015 to 29 May 2025 where the location referenced any of the following: ‘B6165’ and ‘Knaresborough’ ‘B6165’ and ‘Ripley’ ‘B6165’ and ‘Scotton’ ‘Ripley road’ ‘Ripley rd’ ‘Scotton’ ‘Lingerfield’ ‘Brearton’ ‘Farnham’ ‘Scriven’ this has then been broken down by calendar year and severity.

Q3. 3 Safety Camera Vehicle locations along this stretch of B6165. The entirety of the B6165 is classed as one of our Killed and Seriously Injured Routes and therefore we will deploy to this on a regular basis as part of our deployment strategy.

We have a further Safety Camera location in Lingerfield and there are Community Speed Watch locations across all of the roads within Scotton village. Further submissions into the Speed Management Protocol process since the CSW group has started has confirmed that this remains the correct outcome for these roads rather than a Safety Camera Vehicle or Highways England Engineering.

Q4. As above, the entirety of the B6165 is classed as one of our Killed and Seriously Injured routes as highlighted to use through collision statistics.

Q5. Road Safety improvement through the use of Safety Camera Vehicles as described above. If North Yorkshire Council or Highways England are looking into changing the layout of the road or speed limits etc, this would need to be a direct question to those organisations.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.