A6131 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 October 2007 at 10:14 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van, a bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire at 10:14 on Monday 8 October 2007. The 74-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2007
- Monday, 10:14
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Trafic and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95761, longitude -2.01902, in the BD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby, North Yorkshire, BD23 1RD area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007122810168
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6131
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2013.
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 22 October 2013
8 m awayRef 2013120183680
Serious
Car crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 5 April 1983
10 m awayRef 198312B040583
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 22 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999120220093
Slight
Car crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 6 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198212B013682
Fatal
Nissan D22 crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 25 May 2005
14 m awayRef 2005121450616
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 1 August 2008
22 m awayRef 2008120074428
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 74, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2007122810168 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.