A1079 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 15 November 2016 at 17:09 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Vauxhall Tigra were involved in a crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 17:09 on Tuesday 15 November 2016. The 38-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Tigra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 17:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Vauxhall Tigra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94783, longitude -0.89667, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016160134673
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 5 December 2016
2 m awayRef 2016160138877
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 27 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025161596527
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 10 June 2025
3 m awayRef 2025161601265
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 4 October 2018
3 m awayRef 2018160338065
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 10 March 2016
3 m awayRef 2016160051141
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 22 July 2002
5 m awayRef 200216C062302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Tigra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016160134673 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 2016.