A19 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 April 1979 at 18:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A19 in North Yorkshire at 18:40 on Monday 23 April 1979. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 1979
- Monday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.36132, longitude -1.32347, in the DL6 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
- 197912C043879
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 98 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1991.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 20 September 1991
98 m awayRef 1991122630276
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 26 March 2022
133 m awayRef 2022122200401
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 25 June 1994
194 m awayRef 1994121760140
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 6 October 2000
218 m awayRef 2000122800166
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 20 May 1979
232 m awayRef 197912C053779
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 12 April 1997
261 m awayRef 1997121020388
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- 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 197912C043879 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.