A6131 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 September 2016 at 15:50 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van hit a pedestrian on the A6131 in North Yorkshire at 15:50 on Thursday 15 September 2016. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2016
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.96093, longitude -2.01682, 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
- 2016120168272
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2012.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 17 March 2012
6 m awayRef 2012120042556
Slight
Minibus crash on the A59 in North Yorkshire, 3 July 1983
6 m awayRef 198312B083383
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 1 April 2018
8 m awayRef 2018120055039
Slight
Car crash on the A613 in North Yorkshire, 30 May 2005
13 m awayRef 2005121500550
Slight
Car crash on the A6131 in North Yorkshire, 14 June 2011
19 m awayRef 2011120097551
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 31 January 1984
24 m awayRef 198412B008184
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016120168272 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 2016.