A661 crash in North Yorkshire on 27 September 2011 at 12:32 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire at 12:32 on Tuesday 27 September 2011. The 17-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2011
- Tuesday, 12:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98376, longitude -1.49032, in the HG3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone, North Yorkshire, HG3 1GP 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
- 2011120163974
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 661
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 3 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999123370477
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 20 July 2014
1 m awayRef 2014120120627
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 18 February 2018
2 m awayRef 2018120028662
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2012
4 m awayRef 2012120098580
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 12 July 2018
4 m awayRef 2018121800043
Slight
Mazda CX-3 crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 11 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025122500766
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2011120163974 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 2011.