C road crash in North Yorkshire YO7 on 16 February 1979 at 23:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in North Yorkshire at 23:30 on Friday 16 February 1979. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 26-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 1979
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.20433, longitude -1.31132, in the YO7 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197912C016979
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 197912C016979 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.