Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire HG4 on 7 December 1998 at 16:14 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 16:14 on Monday 7 December 1998. The 13-year-old male cyclist 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
- 7 Dec 1998
- Monday, 16:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13619, longitude -1.53316, in the HG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ripon. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998123410740
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1998123410740 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 1998.