Serious A171 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 July 1981 at 13:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A171 in North Yorkshire at 13:45 on Friday 17 July 1981. A 67-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jul 1981
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.48508, longitude -0.6177, in the YO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitby. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112D075481
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 November 1983.
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 3 November 1983
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Serious
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 26 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198212D087982
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 20 February 1981
10 m awayRef 198112D015881
Slight
Car crash on the A174 in North Yorkshire, 22 January 1984
10 m awayRef 198412D003084
Slight
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 8 July 1982
10 m awayRef 198212D065382
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198112D075481 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 1981.