A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 3 May 2007 at 22:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 22:50 on Thursday 3 May 2007. The 48-year-old male driver and a 40-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2007
- Thursday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05945, longitude -1.53722, in the HG3 postcode district. 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
- 2007121230618
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 4 August 2002
14 m awayRef 2002122160746
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 3 April 2005
20 m awayRef 2005120930306
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 1 September 2023
31 m awayRef 2023122301069
Slight
Van crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 14 August 1982
73 m awayRef 198212B111482
Fatal
Subaru Outback crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 15 December 2011
82 m awayRef 2011120210712
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 5 August 1996
108 m awayRef 1996122180075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007121230618 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 2007.