Serious B1257 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 February 2004 at 14:35 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the B1257 in North Yorkshire at 14:35 on Sunday 1 February 2004. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 5-year-old male passenger was 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
- 1 Feb 2004
- Sunday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.40048, longitude -1.13581, in the TS9 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
- 2004120320445
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1257
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 30 May 1989
100 m awayRef 1989128323716
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 20 April 2024
170 m awayRef 2024122400593
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 14 February 1997
255 m awayRef 1997120450117
Slight
Foden crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 29 November 1993
300 m awayRef 1993123330656
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 22 June 2004
300 m awayRef 2004121740828
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 26 November 2025
351 m awayRef 2025122600365
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 2004120320445 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 2004.