A6131 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 May 2002 at 13:10 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia hit a pedestrian on the A6131 in North Yorkshire at 13:10 on Friday 17 May 2002. A 49-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2002
- Friday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95959, longitude -2.01978, in the BD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby, North Yorkshire, BD23 1RD area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002121370509
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 21 December 1998.
Slight
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At the same spotRef 1998123550557
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002121700869
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 9 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994123130097
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 23 February 1990
At the same spotRef 1990120580021
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 3 February 1992
At the same spotRef 1992120340639
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 20 January 1997
At the same spotRef 1997120200671
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 2002121370509 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 2002.