A6040 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 January 2018 at 16:45 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A6040 in North Yorkshire at 16:45 on Thursday 4 January 2018. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 2018
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99194, longitude -1.52727, in the HG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5LQ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2018120002204
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6040
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 1998.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 9 March 1998
8 m awayRef 1998120680656
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 11 January 1998
8 m awayRef 1998120110069
Slight
Leyland crash on the A6040 in North Yorkshire, 12 January 2000
8 m awayRef 2000120120738
Serious
Ford P100 crash on the A6040 in North Yorkshire, 25 January 1990
8 m awayRef 1990121241332
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 21 June 1991
8 m awayRef 1991121720195
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A6040 in North Yorkshire, 11 October 1990
8 m awayRef 1990122840180
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
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018120002204 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 2018.