A63 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 12 June 1997 at 01:45 involving a Vauxhall Senator
A Vauxhall Senator crashed on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 01:45 on Thursday 12 June 1997. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 1997
- Thursday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Senator
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72838, longitude -0.54396, in the HU15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199716E170217
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 63
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 March 2000.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 19 March 2000
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Ford Ranger crash on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 3 August 2007
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LDV Maxus crash on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 14 March 2007
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Volkswagen Arteon crash on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 24 August 2025
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Car crash on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 6 October 1989
61 m awayRef 198916N141059
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Ford Focus crash on the A63 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 19 May 2013
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Senator
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Senator)
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 199716E170217 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 1997.