Serious A59 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 December 1986 at 08:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A59 in North Yorkshire at 08:15 on Monday 15 December 1986. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 1986
- Monday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986126234806
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1986126234806 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.