Serious A63 crash in North Yorkshire on 11 November 2017 at 04:20 involving a Peugeot Partner taxi
A Peugeot Partner taxi crashed on the A63 in North Yorkshire at 04:20 on Saturday 11 November 2017. A 58-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 04:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77576, longitude -0.99107, in the YO8 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017120202683
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 63
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2005.
Slight
Fiat Marea crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 15 February 2005
16 m awayRef 2005120460099
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 1 September 2002
20 m awayRef 2002122440380
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 1996
20 m awayRef 1996123350677
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 9 January 2016
31 m awayRef 2016120004985
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 3 March 1999
33 m awayRef 1999120620826
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 12 May 2016
34 m awayRef 2016120082431
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 58, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- 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 2017120202683 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 2017.