Serious A66(M) crash in North Yorkshire on 26 April 2009 at 17:04 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire at 17:04 on Sunday 26 April 2009. The 33-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 2009
- Sunday, 17:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.49988, longitude -1.62567, in the DL2 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009120069973
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A(M)
- Second road number
- 1
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1991.
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the M66 in North Yorkshire, 24 August 1991
22 m awayRef 1991122360436
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire, 3 August 2018
33 m awayRef 2018121800104
Serious
Car crash on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire, 22 December 1989
45 m awayRef 1989121220530
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 16 October 2002
45 m awayRef 2002122890927
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 13 April 1994
45 m awayRef 1994121030795
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A66(M) in North Yorkshire, 21 January 2014
47 m awayRef 2014120010882
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
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 2009120069973 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 2009.