Serious A166 crash in North Yorkshire on 31 January 1981 at 08:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A166 in North Yorkshire at 08:10 on Saturday 31 January 1981. A 35-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 31-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 1981
- Saturday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.98815, longitude -0.94794, in the YO41 postcode district. 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
- 198112A018381
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 166
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 March 2005.
Fatal
Audi A4 crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 27 March 2005
14 m awayRef 2005120860681
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 2001
22 m awayRef 2001123200794
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 13 August 2010
32 m awayRef 2010120137524
Slight
Car crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 15 November 1979
76 m awayRef 197912A214579
Serious
Car crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 14 June 1980
85 m awayRef 198012A103380
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A166 in North Yorkshire, 26 October 2022
87 m awayRef 2022122201151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 35, 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 198112A018381 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 1981.