Serious B1224 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 May 2010 at 14:30 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire at 14:30 on Saturday 8 May 2010. A 41-year-old female passenger in the Rover 200 Series was seriously injured and a 10-year-old male passenger in the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2010
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLK Class and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95366, longitude -1.23666, in the YO26 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010120073074
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1224
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2013.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire, 6 February 2013
4 m awayRef 2013120020693
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 2017
4 m awayRef 2017120047661
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire, 15 March 2024
5 m awayRef 2024122400391
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire, 6 February 2017
6 m awayRef 2017120021383
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire, 2 July 2017
7 m awayRef 2017120115539
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1224 in North Yorkshire, 21 March 2011
10 m awayRef 2011120045008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat 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 2010120073074 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.