A661 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 April 2025 at 11:50 involving a Skoda Citigo
A Skoda Citigo hit a pedestrian on the A661 in North Yorkshire at 11:50 on Sunday 6 April 2025. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2025
- Sunday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Citigo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99256, longitude -1.5191, in the HG2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harrogate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone, North Yorkshire, HG2 7RZ 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
- 2025122500549
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 661
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2022.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022122200857
Slight
Car crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 30 April 1979
5 m awayRef 197912B065379
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 8 November 1994
7 m awayRef 1994123120842
Serious
Car crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 3 September 1984
24 m awayRef 198412B089484
Slight
Rover crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 1994
36 m awayRef 1994121880600
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A661 in North Yorkshire, 21 August 1997
36 m awayRef 1997122330916
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Citigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Citigo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025122500549 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 2025.