Serious A19 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 August 2001 at 03:38 involving a Fiat Seicento
A Fiat Seicento crashed on the A19 in North Yorkshire at 03:38 on Sunday 5 August 2001. The 23-year-old female driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Aug 2001
- Sunday, 03:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Seicento
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.28041, longitude -1.33492, in the YO7 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001122170123
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Dual 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 382 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 17 June 2014
382 m awayRef 2014120098336
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 5 January 1990
391 m awayRef 1990121228753
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 2011
396 m awayRef 2011120152979
Serious
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 17 January 1980
403 m awayRef 198012C007080
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 22 December 1985
405 m awayRef 1985125376105
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 12 December 2010
408 m awayRef 2010120212904
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Seicento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Seicento)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Seicento)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2001122170123 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.