Serious A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 2 October 2019 at 20:26 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Scania lorry were involved in a crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 20:26 on Wednesday 2 October 2019. The 30-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 2019
- Wednesday, 20:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95774, longitude -2.07856, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019121901419
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 57 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 September 2006.
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 13 September 2006
57 m awayRef 2006122560101
Fatal
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 26 December 1979
63 m awayRef 197912B204879
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 2011
64 m awayRef 2011120202290
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 12 September 1981
79 m awayRef 198112B130281
Serious
Citroen C15 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 18 December 2005
123 m awayRef 2005123520083
Slight
Lada Riva crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 24 June 1990
143 m awayRef 1990121750344
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,290 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2019121901419 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.