Serious A6068 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 July 2009 at 23:59 involving a Vauxhall Astra taxi
A Vauxhall Astra taxi crashed on the A6068 in North Yorkshire at 23:59 on Tuesday 14 July 2009. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jul 2009
- Tuesday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8812, longitude -2.06584, in the BD22 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
- 2009120120107
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 May 2024.
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 18 June 2008
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 4 May 2009
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 25 June 2012
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Fatal
Toyota Avensis crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 30 June 2007
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Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A6068 in North Yorkshire, 17 September 2003
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2009120120107 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.