At that point, the road is a single carriageway with one lane in either direction, the lanes being divided by double central white lines.
The day was clear and there was no other traffic on the single carriageway, national speed limit road.
Just under half of all road deaths occur on the national road network which accounts for approximately 47% of vehicular traffic and 91% of fatal collisions on the national road network occur on single carriageways.
Restricting York's northern ring road to a single carriageway was one of the biggest planning blunders in recent memory.
Driving at 60 mph on a single carriageway can be pretty nerve-racking.