B6479 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 December 2004 at 14:33 involving a DAF Trucks FT 95XF lorry
A DAF Trucks FT 95XF lorry and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire at 14:33 on Tuesday 14 December 2004. The 34-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2004
- Tuesday, 14:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks FT 95XF and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13307, longitude -2.28799, in the BD24 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004123490619
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6479
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 September 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 1979
45 m awayRef 197912B145579
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 5 October 2000
45 m awayRef 2000122790835
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 8 October 2010
67 m awayRef 2010120173831
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX636 crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 22 April 2006
72 m awayRef 2006121120366
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 2024
82 m awayRef 2024122400694
Serious
Vauxhall crash on the B6479 in North Yorkshire, 30 September 1995
425 m awayRef 1995122730708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks FT 95XF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 2004123490619 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.