Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO8 on 8 May 2008 at 12:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 12:30 on Thursday 8 May 2008. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2008
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76601, longitude -1.04042, in the YO8 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120023325
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 34%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 66%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2008120023325 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 2008.