A19 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 March 2003 at 22:45 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A19 in North Yorkshire at 22:45 on Saturday 8 March 2003. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.28762, longitude -1.33788, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003120670787
- 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, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2017.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 2017
70 m awayRef 2017120166345
Serious
Massey Ferguson crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 17 January 2013
71 m awayRef 2013120008907
Serious
Vauxhall Crossland crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 2 November 2020
72 m awayRef 2020122001109
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 2005
82 m awayRef 2005121590911
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 4 January 2003
100 m awayRef 2003120040161
Fatal
Austin Metro crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 13 May 1996
100 m awayRef 1996121340385
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2003120670787 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 2003.