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Serious A166 crash in North Yorkshire on 10 October 1979 at 21:30 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the A166 in North Yorkshire at 21:30 on Wednesday 10 October 1979. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Oct 1979
Wednesday, 21:30
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.97718, longitude -0.9685, in the YO19 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197912A183079
Council area
North Yorkshire
Police force
North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
166
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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, no street lighting
Weather
Fog or mist
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 197912A183079 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.