A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 December 1986 at 07:59 involving a car

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 07:59 on Monday 15 December 1986. A 6-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured. The location was in the former Harrogate district.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 15 Dec 1986; Monday, 07:59
Vehicles: 2; Car and lorry
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986126229933
Council area: North Yorkshire
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 61
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other 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: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Waiting to turn right
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
37 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear seat passenger

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 1986126229933 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 1986.