Serious unclassified road crash in York YO30 on 17 December 2013 at 16:20 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in York at 16:20 on Tuesday 17 December 2013. A 91-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96858, longitude -1.09152, in the YO30 postcode district and within the built-up area of York. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, York, YO30 6JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013120218018
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 30 October 1994.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in York, 30 October 1994
4 m awayRef 1994123030453
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in York, 17 June 1993
19 m awayRef 1993121680890
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in York, 20 May 1980
25 m awayRef 198012A090380
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 2 March 1979
32 m awayRef 197912A039479
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 14 May 1986
32 m awayRef 1986126084066
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in York, 20 August 1984
33 m awayRef 198412A120984
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 91, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2013120218018 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2013.