Serious A1079 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 4 February 2015 at 13:05 involving a Citroen C4
A car and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 13:05 on Wednesday 4 February 2015. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Feb 2015
- Wednesday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94666, longitude -0.88617, in the YO41 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pocklington Provincial, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO41 5LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015160C00691
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1079
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 9 November 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 9 November 2018
1 m awayRef 2018160348731
Serious
Mazda 3 crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 14 November 2012
1 m awayRef 2012160C07831
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 6 December 2013
2 m awayRef 2013160C07551
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 15 November 2014
2 m awayRef 2014160C07501
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 21 November 2016
3 m awayRef 2016160134632
Slight
Renault Captur crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 12 February 2018
3 m awayRef 2018160268310
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015160C00691 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 2015.