Unclassified road crash in York YO32 on 3 February 2008 at 17:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 17:20 on Sunday 3 February 2008. The 30-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.006, longitude -1.07412, in the YO32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haxby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Huntington & New Earswick, York, YO32 3HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120340402
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2009.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in York, 4 March 2009
At the same spotRef 2009120035994
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 March 1980
At the same spotRef 198012A040680
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in York, 21 January 2003
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 19 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198312A084083
Slight
Rover 75 crash on a C road in York, 30 November 2015
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Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on a C road in York, 24 October 2016
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2008120340402 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.