A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 24 November 2003 at 17:25 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 17:25 on Monday 24 November 2003. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2003
- Monday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11774, longitude -1.5257, in the HG4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripon Minster & Moorside, North Yorkshire, HG4 2RU 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
- 2003123280786
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 1991.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 31 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991122430515
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 27 June 1999
22 m awayRef 1999121780492
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 14 December 2005
36 m awayRef 2005123480080
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 13 December 1980
41 m awayRef 198012C139780
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 12 January 2006
50 m awayRef 2006120120297
Serious
Van crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 20 May 1985
50 m awayRef 1985125080597
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2003123280786 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.