Serious A63 crash in North Yorkshire on 22 April 2001 at 03:10 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the A63 in North Yorkshire at 03:10 on Sunday 22 April 2001. A 21-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Apr 2001
- Sunday, 03:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77835, longitude -1.11373, in the YO8 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001121120077
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 63
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1996.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 17 January 1996
100 m awayRef 1996120170901
Slight
Van crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 31 January 1983
103 m awayRef 198312A017783
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 22 November 1994
150 m awayRef 1994123260928
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 15 February 1997
158 m awayRef 1997120460106
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 31 January 1998
180 m awayRef 1998120310680
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 7 May 1999
180 m awayRef 1999121270887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2001121120077 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.