Unclassified road crash in York YO10 on 18 September 1997 at 16:36 involving an LDV 400 Series van
An LDV 400 Series van and a Vauxhall Carlton were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 16:36 on Thursday 18 September 1997. A 31-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Carlton was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1997
- Thursday, 16:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- LDV 400 Series and Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94972, longitude -1.07325, in the YO10 postcode district and within the built-up area of York.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997122610586
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 19
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 November 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the B1227 in York, 26 November 1980
10 m awayRef 198012A214680
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A19 in York, 14 August 2025
10 m awayRef 2025122501254
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in York, 28 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025122600024
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 8 January 2004
20 m awayRef 2004120080269
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A19 in York, 1 December 1999
20 m awayRef 1999123350557
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in York, 1 December 2003
20 m awayRef 2003123350778
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Carlton)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1997122610586 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 1997.