A1238 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 April 2022 at 04:40 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle, a Suzuki Vitara and a Citroen Dispatch van were involved in a crash on the A1238 in North Yorkshire at 04:40 on Sunday 24 April 2022. The 19-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2022
- Sunday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Beetle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78204, longitude -1.07711, in the YO8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Selby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selby East, North Yorkshire, YO8 4PA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022122200575
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 March 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 30 March 1984
9 m awayRef 198412A034784
Slight
Taxi crash on the A1238 in North Yorkshire, 12 May 2009
9 m awayRef 2009120079595
Serious
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 1 November 1984
13 m awayRef 1984124179600
Serious
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 15 January 1986
19 m awayRef 1986126007792
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 March 2022
24 m awayRef 2022122200362
Slight
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 1983
36 m awayRef 198312A061583
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,586 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022122200575 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 2022.