Serious A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 25 January 1980 at 08:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 08:40 on Friday 25 January 1980. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 1980
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9621, longitude -2.01978, in the BD23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Skipton. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198012B011980
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 31 August 1979
10 m awayRef 197912B133279
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 11 March 2014
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Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 27 April 2004
20 m awayRef 2004121180616
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 15 October 2002
20 m awayRef 2002122880649
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198012B011980 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.