A661 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 June 2012 at 14:00 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire at 14:00 on Sunday 17 June 2012. The 20-year-old male driver of the Rover 25, the 25-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Mini Cooper were 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
- 17 Jun 2012
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98381, longitude -1.49049, 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
- 2012120097482
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 16 July 2007
5 m awayRef 2007121970178
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 20 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025122600179
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 1 August 2010
5 m awayRef 2010120129675
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 19 June 2012
9 m awayRef 2012120098580
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 17 January 2013
10 m awayRef 2013120009133
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 3 December 1999
10 m awayRef 1999123370548
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2012120097482 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 2012.