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Serious A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 August 1997 at 20:00 involving a Rover 100 Series

A Rover 100 Series and an Alfa Romeo 164 were involved in a crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 20:00 on Friday 8 August 1997. A 38-year-old male passenger in the Rover 100 Series, the 51-year-old female driver of the Rover 100 Series and the 50-year-old female driver of the Alfa Romeo 164 were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Aug 1997
Friday, 20:00
Vehicles
2
Rover 100 Series and Alfa Romeo 164
Casualties
3
3 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95506, longitude -2.09444, in the BD23 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997122200948
Council area
North Yorkshire
Police force
North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
59
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2016.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Changing lane to right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    51 years
    Engine capacity
    1,120 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

  • Vehicle 2: Alfa Romeo 164

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    50 years
    Engine capacity
    2,959 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alfa Romeo 164)

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 1997122200948 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 1997.