Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire HG2 on 22 May 2003 at 15:33 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 15:33 on Thursday 22 May 2003. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2003
- Thursday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99926, longitude -1.49868, in the HG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fairfax & Starbeck, North Yorkshire, HG2 7JN area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003121420588
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198412B048684
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 13 July 1985
At the same spotRef 1985125216709
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 24 April 1985
At the same spotRef 1985125063890
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 5 November 2016
6 m awayRef 2016120200946
Slight
Mazda CX-60 crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 30 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025122500948
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 30 November 2022
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2003121420588 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 2003.