FOI 1242-2024/25 RTCs - A1079

Request
Q1. The number of RTCs recorded by North Yorkshire Police on the A1079 road between, and including, the villages of Dunnington and the A1079 where it reaches Kexby and jurisdiction changes. 

Q2. The number of fatalities recorded by North Yorkshire Police as a result of RTCs on the A1079 road between, and including, the villages of Dunnington and the A1079 where it reaches Kexby and jurisdiction changes. 

We would like the data for 2006 - 2015 inclusive and published year by year.

We would like the data for 2016 - 2025 to date inclusive and published year by year.

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.

Decision

As stated in my email dated 14 April 2025, I am able to provide data from 1 July 2018 as follows:

Q1. Please see below table showing a breakdown of road traffic collisions at the requested location from 1 July 2018, broken down by calendar year.

Q2. Please see the below link to information publicly available:

Three people killed in horror York crash | YorkMix

As such, I am exempting this information pursuant to Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act) as it is available to the applicant by other means.

Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.

Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to your request.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.