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Unclassified road crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire HU19 on 21 January 1997 at 17:03 involving a Rover 400 Series

A Rover 400 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 17:03 on Tuesday 21 January 1997. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Jan 1997
Tuesday, 17:03
Vehicles
1
Rover 400 Series
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73216, longitude 0.03059, in the HU19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Withernsea.

Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199716D210024
Council area
East Riding of Yorkshire
Police force
Humberside

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years
    Engine capacity
    1,769 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199716D210024 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 1997.