A661 crash in North Yorkshire on 7 October 2011 at 08:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire at 08:15 on Friday 7 October 2011. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2011
- Friday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94984, longitude -1.44198, in the HG3 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011120170074
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 1989
22 m awayRef 1989121098125
Serious
Lorry crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 18 January 1984
28 m awayRef 198412B004184
Serious
Car crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 15 April 1979
45 m awayRef 197912B058079
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 7 March 2015
49 m awayRef 2015120037699
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 29 April 1992
63 m awayRef 1992121200708
Slight
Car crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 30 December 1985
85 m awayRef 1985125380468
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2011120170074 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.