Serious unclassified road crash in York YO19 on 31 August 2025 at 15:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 15:05 on Sunday 31 August 2025. The 88-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2025
- Sunday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96301, longitude -0.98787, in the YO19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025122501048
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 July 2005.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in York, 27 July 2005
5 m awayRef 2005122080413
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 20 May 1989
55 m awayRef 1989128316882
Serious
Optare crash on a C road in York, 21 April 2014
211 m awayRef 2014120063466
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in York, 10 July 2022
231 m awayRef 2022122200996
Slight
Audi TT crash on a C road in York, 13 January 2015
241 m awayRef 2015120007181
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 24 November 1981
313 m awayRef 198112A203681
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 88 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025122501048 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2025.