Serious A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 January 1980 at 19:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 19:00 on Friday 4 January 1980. The 51-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 55-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jan 1980
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.14687, longitude -0.25801, in the YO14 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198012D000980
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 165
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2015.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 14 October 2015
11 m awayRef 2015120181893
Serious
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 14 November 1982
14 m awayRef 198212D118482
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 4 September 2015
19 m awayRef 2015120155631
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B1229 in North Yorkshire, 4 November 2006
32 m awayRef 2006123080385
Fatal
Ford Kuga crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 28 October 2025
38 m awayRef 2025122501226
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 19 May 2017
44 m awayRef 2017120085938
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198012D000980 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.