A61 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 January 2020 at 17:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire at 17:45 on Monday 6 January 2020. The 32-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2020
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.03362, longitude -1.56361, in the HG3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Masham & Fountains, North Yorkshire, HG3 3DX 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
- 2020122000127
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 December 2016.
Serious
Lexmoto Dart 125 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 7 December 2016
3 m awayRef 2016120220748
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 17 January 2024
15 m awayRef 2024122400114
Serious
Car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 1 June 2010
16 m awayRef 2010120088521
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 19 January 1990
31 m awayRef 1990121237590
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 10 August 1994
31 m awayRef 1994122220783
Slight
Nissan 200 crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire, 28 November 2003
32 m awayRef 2003123320916
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2020122000127 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 2020.