A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 December 1996 at 10:46 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 10:46 on Tuesday 24 December 1996. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1996
- Tuesday, 10:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00728, longitude -1.55138, in the HG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996123590296
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1992.
Slight
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At the same spotRef 1992120100639
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 14 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990123180088
Serious
Volvo crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 1 November 2000
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Slight
Peugeot Zenith crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 24 July 1998
At the same spotRef 1998122050124
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 3 February 1988
At the same spotRef 1988128019519
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 24 December 2002
At the same spotRef 2002123580770
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 1996123590296 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 1996.