Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire HG3 on 26 January 2010 at 10:00 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 10:00 on Tuesday 26 January 2010. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2010
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes ML Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00507, longitude -1.56025, in the HG3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bilton Grange & New Park, North Yorkshire, HG1 3HQ 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
- 2010120013613
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 7 November 1985
30 m awayRef 1985125303471
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 4 December 2018
44 m awayRef 2018121800570
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 17 June 2025
48 m awayRef 2025122500952
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 24 November 1989
54 m awayRef 1989121240929
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 13 April 1994
70 m awayRef 1994121030569
Serious
Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 19 August 2007
71 m awayRef 2007122310001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes ML Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2010120013613 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 2010.