Serious A1041 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 May 2008 at 20:57 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1041 in North Yorkshire at 20:57 on Tuesday 20 May 2008. A 17-year-old female passenger and a 17-year-old male passenger were seriously 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
- 20 May 2008
- Tuesday, 20:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74187, longitude -1.04582, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120030637
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1041
- 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, 54 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 April 2012.
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 2012
54 m awayRef 2012120063143
Slight
Car crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 22 February 1985
112 m awayRef 1985125028281
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 1 December 2005
179 m awayRef 2005123350164
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 27 September 1981
184 m awayRef 198112A163381
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 24 October 2025
218 m awayRef 2025122501165
Fatal
Vehicle crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 4 November 1985
233 m awayRef 1985125300064
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2008120030637 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.