Serious A64 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 June 2008 at 08:40 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van crashed on the A64 in North Yorkshire at 08:40 on Friday 20 June 2008. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jun 2008
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.09654, longitude -0.8779, in the YO60 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120050677
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 64
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1995.
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 1995
14 m awayRef 1995120800280
Slight
Foden crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 7 October 2005
28 m awayRef 2005122810574
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 1990
28 m awayRef 1990121490323
Serious
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 8 April 2012
35 m awayRef 2012120055928
Serious
Foden crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 28 August 2008
36 m awayRef 2008120090409
Slight
Car crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 11 July 1981
45 m awayRef 198112D072981
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
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 2008120050677 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.