A64 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 April 2019 at 16:05 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A64 in North Yorkshire at 16:05 on Friday 19 April 2019. A 6-year-old female passenger and a 3-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2019
- Friday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11241, longitude -0.84656, in the YO60 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019121900547
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 64
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2025.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 21 October 2025
26 m awayRef 2025122600136
Fatal
Toyota Corolla crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 10 August 2001
50 m awayRef 2001122220748
Serious
Iveco crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 23 May 2009
71 m awayRef 2009120086237
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 25 December 2007
79 m awayRef 2007123590126
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 2003
85 m awayRef 2003121750173
Serious
Van crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 3 January 1979
110 m awayRef 197912D000279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2019121900547 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 2019.