A171 crash in North Yorkshire on 26 August 2005 at 11:32 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on the A171 in North Yorkshire at 11:32 on Friday 26 August 2005. An 8-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 26 Aug 2005
- Friday, 11:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.4757, longitude -0.60611, in the YO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitby. 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
- 2005122380301
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 171
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 1982.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 2 October 1982
14 m awayRef 198212D104282
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 5 June 2021
15 m awayRef 2021122100865
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 21 November 1990
28 m awayRef 1990123250311
Serious
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 5 January 1984
32 m awayRef 198412D000784
Serious
Car crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 25 March 1989
42 m awayRef 1989128281081
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A171 in North Yorkshire, 15 December 2001
85 m awayRef 2001123490367
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- 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 2005122380301 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 2005.