Were you travelling along the A19 (York Road) between Thirsk and Easingwold on Saturday evening?

Were you travelling along the A19 (York Road) between Thirsk and Easingwold on Saturday evening?

Were you travelling along the A19 (York Road) between Thirsk and Easingwold on Saturday evening?

We are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage following a fatal collision south of Thirsk on Saturday 14 November.

It happened at around 6.45pm near the village of Thirkleby when a silver Vauxhall Corsa travelling south and a coach, travelling in the opposite direction, collided.

Sadly, the driver of the Corsa, a 20-year-old man died in the collision. His passenger, another man in his 20s suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital.

We are appealing to anyone who was travelling in either direction and may have seen either vehicle prior to the collision, witnessed the collision, or has any dashcam footage of the vehicles before or of the collision, to get in touch.

Anyone with any information is asked to email SCIU@northyorkshire.police.uk

Or call 101 and pass information for incident number 12260224121

The road was closed to allow emergency services to work at the scene, for collision investigators to examine the scene and recovery of the vehicles. At the time of writing, emergency services remain at the scene pending recovery of the coach.

There were no serious injuries reported by any occupants of the coach.