B1228 crash in North Yorkshire on 7 May 1981 at 18:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1228 in North Yorkshire at 18:30 on Thursday 7 May 1981. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 1981
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.9531, longitude -1.00064, in the YO19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112A074581
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1228
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2022.
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B1228 in York, 2 July 2022
19 m awayRef 2022122300279
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1228 in York, 19 January 1999
20 m awayRef 1999120190791
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B1228 in York, 12 June 2005
22 m awayRef 2005121630607
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 30 December 1995
22 m awayRef 1995123640292
Serious
Car crash on the B1228 in York, 6 February 2005
30 m awayRef 2005120370265
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B1228 in York, 3 August 2025
31 m awayRef 2025122501233
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, 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 198112A074581 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.