A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 December 2015 at 14:30 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a car were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 14:30 on Tuesday 29 December 2015. A 78-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1621, longitude -1.47303, in the HG4 postcode district. 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
- 2015120230584
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 March 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 2 March 1981
69 m awayRef 198112C026581
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 30 October 2020
80 m awayRef 2020122001096
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 18 July 2011
83 m awayRef 2011120119137
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 17 January 1979
92 m awayRef 197912C007879
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 8 April 2023
97 m awayRef 2023122300355
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 1983
101 m awayRef 198312C100083
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2015120230584 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.