Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire YO17 on 24 November 1979 at 23:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 23:45 on Saturday 24 November 1979. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Nov 1979
- Saturday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12491, longitude -0.78197, in the YO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norton-on-Derwent. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197912D129779
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 197912D129779 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.