A19 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 December 1997 at 12:02 involving a Volvo 740
A Volvo 740 and a car were involved in a crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire at 12:02 on Wednesday 24 December 1997. The 69-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 12:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo 740 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88748, longitude -1.0445, in the YO19 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997123580359
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 112 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2005.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A19 in York, 29 November 2005
112 m awayRef 2005123330125
Fatal
Kia Ceed crash on the A19 in York, 31 December 2019
124 m awayRef 2019122000001
Slight
Honda City Fly CLR 125 crash on the A19 in York, 16 December 2001
141 m awayRef 2001123500419
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 25 November 1991
141 m awayRef 1991123290133
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A19 in York, 19 August 1997
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Serious
Audi S4 crash on the A19 in York, 4 March 2025
176 m awayRef 2025122500363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 740
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,316 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1997123580359 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.