A6131 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 December 2015 at 19:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A6131 in North Yorkshire at 19:00 on Friday 18 December 2015. A 60-year-old male 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2015
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96037, longitude -2.01745, in the BD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby, North Yorkshire, BD23 1RD area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015120224691
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6131
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6131
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 3 July 1984
8 m awayRef 198412B066284
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A6069 in North Yorkshire, 6 June 1990
13 m awayRef 1990121570351
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 29 January 1997
13 m awayRef 1997120290706
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 18 April 2019
14 m awayRef 2019121901133
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 7 September 2008
15 m awayRef 2008120096236
Slight
Taxi crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 14 November 1999
17 m awayRef 1999123180288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015120224691 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 2015.