Unclassified road crash in York YO1 on 6 December 2015 at 17:00 involving a Wrightbus Gemini
A Wrightbus Gemini hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in York at 17:00 on Sunday 6 December 2015. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Gemini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95825, longitude -1.08039, in the YO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of York. It is one of the crashes that make up the Micklegate, York, YO1 6DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120217873
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 19 January 2007
2 m awayRef 2007120190516
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in York, 27 July 1983
2 m awayRef 198312A126783
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in York, 20 August 1983
2 m awayRef 198312A132983
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 14 July 1979
2 m awayRef 197912A121279
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in York, 17 December 1979
2 m awayRef 197912A237479
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 6 February 1982
2 m awayRef 198212A019482
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Gemini
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2015120217873 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 2015.