Serious A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 26 November 2007 at 15:20 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series crashed on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 15:20 on Monday 26 November 2007. The 59-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 2007
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar XJ Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95073, longitude -2.10968, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007123300388
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1991.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 27 July 1991
20 m awayRef 1991122080186
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 1 March 1993
20 m awayRef 1993120600152
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 3 December 1997
20 m awayRef 1997123370740
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A56 in North Yorkshire, 18 September 1998
20 m awayRef 1998122610467
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 2 September 1994
20 m awayRef 1994122450890
Slight
Lexmoto Assault 125 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 1 March 2017
21 m awayRef 2017120035207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
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 2007123300388 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.