A1041 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 March 2001 at 02:59 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A1041 in North Yorkshire at 02:59 on Saturday 17 March 2001. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2001
- Saturday, 02:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77527, longitude -1.06372, in the YO8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Selby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selby East, North Yorkshire, YO8 8RN area accident hotspot. 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
- 2001120760083
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1041
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 6 May 1993.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 6 May 1993
At the same spotRef 1993121260582
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 2017
10 m awayRef 2017120097818
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 17 March 2025
22 m awayRef 2025122500426
Slight
Car crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 26 June 1983
41 m awayRef 198312A110783
Slight
Car crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 15 March 1982
45 m awayRef 198212A042682
Serious
Car crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 8 September 1979
54 m awayRef 197912A157979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2001120760083 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 2001.