Serious unclassified road crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire YO42 on 12 November 2025 at 13:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 13:50 on Wednesday 12 November 2025. The 82-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Wednesday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.93286, longitude -0.83788, in the YO42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025161667415
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 January 2018.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 18 January 2018
2 m awayRef 2018160346613
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 13 July 1995
3 m awayRef 199516C170357
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 13 May 1996
3 m awayRef 199616C110240
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1 October 1993
3 m awayRef 199316C170955
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1079 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 21 February 1996
3 m awayRef 199616C110092
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 9 January 2020
4 m awayRef 2020160917529
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025161667415 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 2025.