Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire HG3 on 30 April 2008 at 15:54 involving a Fiat Doblo taxi
A Fiat Doblo taxi and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 15:54 on Wednesday 30 April 2008. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2008
- Wednesday, 15:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Doblo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98618, longitude -1.70151, 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
- 2008120018927
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 368 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 April 1979.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 April 1979
368 m awayRef 197912B058379
Slight
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429 m awayRef 2025122500263
Slight
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 February 2002
435 m awayRef 2002120360710
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 24 May 2007
456 m awayRef 2007121440694
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 22 July 2003
599 m awayRef 2003122030437
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 23 June 1988
604 m awayRef 1988128107671
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
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 2008120018927 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 2008.