Serious A63 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 December 1981 at 16:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A63 in North Yorkshire at 16:25 on Tuesday 1 December 1981. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76564, longitude -0.96307, in the YO8 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112A209581
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 63
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1991.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 21 September 1991
54 m awayRef 1991122640373
Serious
Car crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 20 October 1989
54 m awayRef 1989121080093
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 6 November 2001
170 m awayRef 2001123101079
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 28 August 1999
170 m awayRef 1999122400338
Serious
Van crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 20 June 1981
200 m awayRef 198112A101781
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A63 in North Yorkshire, 16 December 2010
221 m awayRef 2010120215217
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, 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 198112A209581 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.