Serious A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 26 August 1995 at 20:03 involving a car
A car crashed on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 20:03 on Saturday 26 August 1995. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 1995
- Saturday, 20:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11415, longitude -1.52728, in the HG4 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995122380676
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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 27 May 1996.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 27 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996121480292
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 5 October 1990
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 24 August 2005
41 m awayRef 2005122360099
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 14 March 2017
42 m awayRef 2017120043175
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 17 June 2016
43 m awayRef 2016120106586
Slight
Lorry crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 25 August 1989
50 m awayRef 1989121041897
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in 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 1995122380676 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 1995.