Unclassified road crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire YO43 on 9 April 2018 at 06:43 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a DAF Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 06:43 on Monday 9 April 2018. The 50-year-old male driver of the DAF Trucks lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2018
- Monday, 06:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.857, longitude -0.66268, in the YO43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Market Weighton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wolds Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO43 3JU 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
- 2018160285595
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1079
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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 29 May 2000.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 29 May 2000
2 m awayRef 200016C041500
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 12 December 1997
2 m awayRef 199716C220709
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 6 December 2019
5 m awayRef 2019160906816
Serious
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Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 20 November 2022
8 m awayRef 2022161244495
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 26 August 2003
8 m awayRef 200316C069203
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,837 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 2 (DAF Trucks)
- 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 2018160285595 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 2018.