Unclassified road crash in York YO1 on 25 December 1981 at 01:10 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in York at 01:10 on Friday 25 December 1981. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1981
- Friday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95941, longitude -1.08218, in the YO1 postcode district and within the built-up area of York.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112A225181
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198112A225181 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 1981.