Serious B1222 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 December 2002 at 07:08 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire at 07:08 on Thursday 5 December 2002. The 25-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 07:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.92461, longitude -1.08018, in the YO19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fulford & Heslington, York, YO19 4RF 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002123390084
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1222
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 February 2015.
Serious
BMW 4 Series crash on the B1222 in York, 20 February 2015
50 m awayRef 2015120028435
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 2 July 1982
58 m awayRef 198212A107982
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1222 in York, 17 April 2006
67 m awayRef 2006121070182
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in York, 28 March 2023
72 m awayRef 2023122300309
Slight
Car crash on the B1222 in York, 21 December 2020
86 m awayRef 2020122100074
Serious
Car crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 26 January 1980
89 m awayRef 198012A017980
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2002123390084 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 2002.