A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 December 2012 at 12:37 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 12:37 on Wednesday 19 December 2012. The 55-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 12:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99299, longitude -1.74913, in the LS21 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
- 2012120213242
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 2013
10 m awayRef 2013120102544
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 25 October 2015
22 m awayRef 2015120189114
Slight
Volkswagen 1200 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 19 December 2001
71 m awayRef 2001123530196
Serious
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 13 February 1982
118 m awayRef 198212B017582
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 15 September 2004
145 m awayRef 2004122590942
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 21 October 1994
155 m awayRef 1994122940627
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2012120213242 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 2012.