A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 December 2007 at 14:33 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 14:33 on Friday 14 December 2007. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2007
- Friday, 14:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.03573, longitude -1.56405, in the HG3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Masham & Fountains, North Yorkshire, HG3 3DX 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
- 2007123480272
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2023.
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 26 March 2023
39 m awayRef 2023122300582
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 19 February 1990
42 m awayRef 1990121258361
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 1 November 1983
58 m awayRef 198312B127983
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 12 September 1999
63 m awayRef 1999122550030
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 21 May 2009
73 m awayRef 2009120084641
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 1 December 2016
95 m awayRef 2016120219626
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2007123480272 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.