Serious A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 21 September 2008 at 11:45 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 11:45 on Sunday 21 September 2008. The 42-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Sep 2008
- Sunday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95939, longitude -2.06596, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120104424
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2013.
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 14 April 2013
2 m awayRef 2013120058889
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 7 November 2013
6 m awayRef 2013120193393
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 13 July 2016
7 m awayRef 2016120123808
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 15 June 1980
10 m awayRef 198012B077380
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 1 August 1986
10 m awayRef 1986126138735
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 30 May 2006
14 m awayRef 2006121500140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
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 2008120104424 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.