A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 6 October 1979 at 17:10 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 17:10 on Saturday 6 October 1979. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1979
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.28189, longitude -0.40839, in the YO12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scarborough. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197912D111579
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 165
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 22 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986126153077
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 2014
6 m awayRef 2014120102405
Slight
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 29 May 2013
9 m awayRef 2013120086201
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 10 November 1992
10 m awayRef 1992123150396
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 17 August 2016
13 m awayRef 2016120148682
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 4 August 2025
13 m awayRef 2025122500949
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 197912D111579 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.