Serious B1240 crash in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 16 March 2015 at 16:37 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the B1240 in the East Riding of Yorkshire at 16:37 on Monday 16 March 2015. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2015
- Monday, 16:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74131, longitude -0.19877, in the HU12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hedon. It is one of the crashes that make up the South West Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU12 8ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015160C01421
- Council area
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Police force
- Humberside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1240
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 March 2002.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 21 March 2002
6 m awayRef 200216C026602
Slight
Car crash on the B1240 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 8 May 1989
6 m awayRef 198916G140770
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 12 October 2016
6 m awayRef 2016160116352
Slight
Audi SQ5 crash on the B1240 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 10 December 2016
9 m awayRef 2016160140301
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1 September 2008
11 m awayRef 2008160C06440
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 3 February 1997
12 m awayRef 199716D110044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- 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
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2015160C01421 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Riding of Yorkshire road accident statistics for 2015.