A6131 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 August 2008 at 12:45 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A6131 in North Yorkshire at 12:45 on Monday 18 August 2008. A 7-year-old female pedestrian and an 81-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2008
- Monday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96228, longitude -2.01627, 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
- 2008120084595
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 2014.
Serious
Car crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 28 November 2014
12 m awayRef 2014120205799
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 December 2014
12 m awayRef 2014120216318
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 June 2008
14 m awayRef 2008120039797
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 28 June 2012
22 m awayRef 2012120103932
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 14 April 2008
22 m awayRef 2008121050148
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 2 July 2004
22 m awayRef 2004121840770
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 59 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2008120084595 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.