A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 26 October 2010 at 17:19 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo, a Land Rover Range Rover and a Citroen Dispatch van were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 17:19 on Tuesday 26 October 2010. The 58-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 39-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Range Rover were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2010
- Tuesday, 17:19
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Polo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13791, longitude -1.51338, in the HG4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ripon Minster & Moorside, North Yorkshire, HG4 1QX 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
- 2010120184798
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2008.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 December 2008
28 m awayRef 2008120153676
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 12 March 2008
36 m awayRef 2008120720337
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 4 May 2003
51 m awayRef 2003121240276
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 15 January 2025
51 m awayRef 2025122500085
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 13 July 2023
53 m awayRef 2023122300806
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 3 February 2007
54 m awayRef 2007120340511
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,734 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover)
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 2010120184798 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.