B1257 crash in North Yorkshire on 31 January 1997 at 14:00 involving a Citroen Relay van
A Citroen Relay van hit a pedestrian on the B1257 in North Yorkshire at 14:00 on Friday 31 January 1997. A 50-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
- 31 Jan 1997
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Relay
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.44735, longitude -1.15643, in the TS9 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997120310534
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1257
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 158 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1986.
Slight
Van crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 28 November 1986
158 m awayRef 1986126219359
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 1 June 2021
159 m awayRef 2021122100862
Serious
Van crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 13 January 1984
178 m awayRef 198412C001084
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 4 June 1988
206 m awayRef 1988128095001
Slight
Van crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 1983
234 m awayRef 198312C100183
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 13 March 1999
240 m awayRef 1999120720474
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Relay
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,446 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Relay)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 1997120310534 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 1997.