A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 3 December 2010 at 10:15 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 10:15 on Friday 3 December 2010. The 44-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2010
- Friday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95713, longitude -2.08257, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120207946
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 16 February 2016
35 m awayRef 2016120028260
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 5 May 2020
50 m awayRef 2020122000483
Serious
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 14 May 2005
61 m awayRef 2005121340552
Slight
Hyundai Atoz crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 20 June 2006
73 m awayRef 2006121710685
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 3 November 2001
139 m awayRef 2001123070497
Slight
Lada Riva crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 1990
139 m awayRef 1990121750344
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2010120207946 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 2010.