A19 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 March 1979 at 04:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A19 in North Yorkshire at 04:00 on Tuesday 20 March 1979. The 27-year-old male driver 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
- 20 Mar 1979
- Tuesday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78299, longitude -1.07359, in the YO8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Selby. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197912A048779
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1979.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 10 September 1979
At the same spotRef 197912A158879
Serious
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 15 March 1985
10 m awayRef 1985125040099
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 29 June 2023
14 m awayRef 2023122300824
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 8 February 2006
14 m awayRef 2006120390739
Serious
Lorry crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 14 August 1980
14 m awayRef 198012A143180
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 5 December 2006
14 m awayRef 2006123390467
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197912A048779 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.