Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire HG5 on 31 December 1997 at 21:39 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 21:39 on Wednesday 31 December 1997. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 21:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0096, longitude -1.45828, in the HG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Knaresborough. 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
- 1997123650841
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2002.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 September 2002
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Slight
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Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 1 November 2007
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Fatal
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 13 April 1995
100 m awayRef 1995121030780
Serious
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114 m awayRef 198012B061280
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 March 2013
124 m awayRef 2013120043034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1997123650841 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.