A6068 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 April 1999 at 13:26 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Nissan Bluebird were involved in a crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire at 13:26 on Thursday 8 April 1999. The 50-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 1999
- Thursday, 13:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88606, longitude -2.03952, in the BD22 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999120980504
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2000.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 12 August 2000
20 m awayRef 2000122280879
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 8 February 1990
20 m awayRef 1990121250593
Fatal
Car crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 10 May 1988
20 m awayRef 1988128078851
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 4 May 2003
20 m awayRef 2003121240548
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 4 November 1993
30 m awayRef 1993123080591
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 12 September 2005
32 m awayRef 2005122551029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 1999120980504 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 1999.