A684 crash in North Yorkshire on 14 August 2008 at 23:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A684 in North Yorkshire at 23:00 on Thursday 14 August 2008. A 24-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2008
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.32554, longitude -2.26812, in the DL8 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008120082975
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 684
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2017.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 2 January 2017
5 m awayRef 2017120000608
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 13 July 2025
31 m awayRef 2025122501392
Serious
Car crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 2 July 1981
110 m awayRef 198112C076181
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 14 April 1990
363 m awayRef 1990121050029
Serious
Hyundai i20 crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 20 August 2023
722 m awayRef 2023122300861
Fatal
Honda crash on the A684 in North Yorkshire, 19 April 1998
742 m awayRef 1998121190649
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2008120082975 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.