Unclassified road crash in York YO26 on 17 September 2008 at 09:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A car and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 09:30 on Wednesday 17 September 2008. The 30-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2008
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96339, longitude -1.1217, in the YO26 postcode district and within the built-up area of York. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holgate, York, YO26 4SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120101920
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1985.
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Motorcycle crash on a C road in York, 15 September 1982
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008120101920 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2008.