A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 9 November 2011 at 15:48 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 15:48 on Wednesday 9 November 2011. The 68-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2011
- Wednesday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9915, longitude -1.23703, in the YO26 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011120190170
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1991.
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 1991
28 m awayRef 1991122520105
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 29 August 2003
28 m awayRef 2003122410084
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 17 February 2001
28 m awayRef 2001120480196
Serious
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 11 January 1989
82 m awayRef 1989128237740
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 27 November 1994
144 m awayRef 1994123310360
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 5 November 2019
162 m awayRef 2019121901483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2011120190170 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 2011.