A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 December 2001 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 19:30 on Tuesday 18 December 2001. An 86-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2001
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.23193, longitude -1.34491, in the YO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thirsk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 3BU area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001123520928
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 3 May 1988
At the same spotRef 1988128074781
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 8 February 2002
At the same spotRef 2002120391012
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 30 November 2020
47 m awayRef 2020122100050
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Honda CBR crash on the A161 in North Yorkshire, 16 October 2023
49 m awayRef 2023122301246
Slight
Van crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 2014
58 m awayRef 2014120122710
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 2017
60 m awayRef 2017120047708
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 86, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2001123520928 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 2001.