Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO32 on 24 January 1979 at 19:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 19:20 on Wednesday 24 January 1979. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 1979
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98762, longitude -1.0689, in the YO32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huntington, York.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197912A013879
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 8 April 1986
At the same spotRef 1986126059769
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Yorkshire, 15 May 1980
At the same spotRef 198012A086380
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on a C road in York, 23 May 2012
6 m awayRef 2012120082712
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in York, 11 May 2023
9 m awayRef 2023122300652
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in York, 23 November 2020
9 m awayRef 2020122001316
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 July 1981
10 m awayRef 198112A115281
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 197912A013879 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 1979.