Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire on 27 December 1986 at 02:14 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 02:14 on Saturday 27 December 1986. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured. The location was in the former Harrogate district.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1986; Saturday, 02:14
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986126237265
Council area: North Yorkshire
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Slowing or stopping
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1986126237265 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.