Serious A63 crash in North Yorkshire on 31 May 2007 at 13:50 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series and a Fiat Brava were involved in a crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire at 13:50 on Thursday 31 May 2007. The 42-year-old female driver of the Fiat Brava was seriously injured and the 22-year-old male driver of the Rover 800 Series and a 16-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Brava were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 2007
- Thursday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 800 Series and Fiat Brava
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7955, longitude -1.02987, in the YO8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barlby & Riccall, North Yorkshire, YO8 5HA 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
- 2007121510265
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 63
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2020.
Slight
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Lorry crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 22 October 2021
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 8 September 2011
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Slight
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 19 April 1989
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Slight
Morris 440 crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 10 September 1991
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Slight
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 4 March 1981
28 m awayRef 198112A038181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Brava)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Brava)
- 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 2007121510265 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 2007.