Serious A64 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 November 2001 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire at 14:30 on Sunday 4 November 2001. A 56-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured and the 76-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 106 and the 55-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Nov 2001
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.18158, longitude -0.4991, in the YO12 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001123080429
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 64
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2019.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 2019
55 m awayRef 2019121900551
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 28 January 1991
64 m awayRef 1991120280291
Serious
Car crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 5 December 1992
78 m awayRef 1992123400487
Serious
Renault crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 20 January 1997
78 m awayRef 1997120200839
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 15 November 2011
104 m awayRef 2011120193441
Slight
MAN crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 3 December 2015
105 m awayRef 2015120214497
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2001123080429 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.