Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO12 on 15 June 2002 at 11:08 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 11:08 on Saturday 15 June 2002. The 87-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jun 2002
- Saturday, 11:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.27364, longitude -0.42326, in the YO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scarborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falsgrave & Stepney, North Yorkshire, YO12 5QW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002121660315
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
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 2002121660315 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.