Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO12 on 14 April 1997 at 19:32 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 19:32 on Monday 14 April 1997. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Apr 1997
- Monday, 19:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.29384, longitude -0.42852, in the YO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scarborough. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997121040855
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 1997121040855 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.