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Serious unclassified road crash in York YO30 on 5 March 1999 at 19:01 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in York at 19:01 on Friday 5 March 1999. A 6-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 T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Mar 1999
Friday, 19:01
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9747, longitude -1.09585, in the YO30 postcode district and within the built-up area of York.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1999120640783
Council area
York
Police force
North Yorkshire
Police attended the scene
No

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
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 6, 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 1999120640783 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 1999.