A1041 crash in North Yorkshire on 8 December 1980 at 12:00 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A1041 in North Yorkshire at 12:00 on Monday 8 December 1980. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1980
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77761, longitude -1.06293, in the YO8 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198012A225780
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1041
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 2015
1 m awayRef 2015120082933
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 23 June 2008
10 m awayRef 2008120050973
Slight
Car crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 12 May 1983
10 m awayRef 198312A080383
Serious
Car crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 12 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198212A024082
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 24 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025122501205
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A1041 in North Yorkshire, 12 January 2016
12 m awayRef 2016120006418
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198012A225780 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 1980.