Serious A162 crash in North Yorkshire on 17 September 1981 at 19:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A162 in North Yorkshire at 19:25 on Thursday 17 September 1981. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Sep 1981
- Thursday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79655, longitude -1.25152, in the LS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sherburn in Elmet. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112A156881
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 162
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197912A118779
Serious
Car crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 15 November 1981
20 m awayRef 198112A196981
Slight
Lorry crash on the A162 in North Yorkshire, 20 August 1979
20 m awayRef 197912A146279
Slight
Honda NSC50WH crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 31 August 2018
21 m awayRef 2018121800197
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 4 March 2021
22 m awayRef 2021122100269
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 16 September 2025
26 m awayRef 2025122600421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198112A156881 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.