Serious C road crash in York YO32 on 8 September 2014 at 20:45 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on a C road in York at 20:45 on Monday 8 September 2014. All five casualties were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 2014
- Monday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.02384, longitude -1.05858, in the YO32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014120154513
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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, 65 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in York, 5 November 2001
65 m awayRef 2001123090776
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 2 June 1982
103 m awayRef 198212A085482
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 26 November 1982
117 m awayRef 198212A204782
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in York, 12 August 1997
153 m awayRef 1997122240690
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in York, 25 January 2003
161 m awayRef 2003120250518
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 13 January 1992
175 m awayRef 1992120130592
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2014120154513 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2014.