A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 October 2014 at 13:15 involving a Fiat Fiorino van
A car, a Fiat Fiorino van and a Kia Ceed were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 13:15 on Friday 17 October 2014. The 45-year-old female driver of the Fiat Fiorino van and the 35-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2014
- Friday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Fiorino and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.22769, longitude -1.37041, in the YO7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thirsk. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014120179189
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2024.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 25 January 2024
17 m awayRef 2024122400149
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 10 November 1979
22 m awayRef 197912C136079
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 8 August 1983
22 m awayRef 198312C066583
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 26 May 1979
42 m awayRef 197912C057079
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 5 May 1992
56 m awayRef 1992121280070
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 1 February 1995
59 m awayRef 1995120320112
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Fiorino
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Fiorino)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2014120179189 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 2014.