B1222 crash in North Yorkshire on 15 May 1981 at 13:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire at 13:00 on Friday 15 May 1981. The 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 1981
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80099, longitude -1.17507, in the LS25 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
- 198112A078281
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1222
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 August 2006.
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 9 August 2006
At the same spotRef 2006122210638
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 1999
At the same spotRef 1999123340085
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 17 October 2024
1 m awayRef 2024122401187
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 18 July 2021
1 m awayRef 2021122100713
Fatal
Honda CB crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 3 August 2022
4 m awayRef 2022122200827
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B1222 in North Yorkshire, 30 November 2017
4 m awayRef 2017120214453
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198112A078281 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.