Unclassified road crash in York YO62 on 28 August 2003 at 17:03 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in York at 17:03 on Thursday 28 August 2003. A 41-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2003
- Thursday, 17:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.2588, longitude -1.08182, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003122400686
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2004.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,874 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2003122400686 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 2003.