B6480 crash in North Yorkshire on 20 April 1981 at 06:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6480 in North Yorkshire at 06:00 on Monday 20 April 1981. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1981
- Monday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11892, longitude -2.46826, in the LA2 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112B054881
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6480
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 April 2018.
Serious
Yamaha MT09 crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 26 April 2018
40 m awayRef 2018120072194
Slight
Car crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 2007
63 m awayRef 2007121950187
Serious
Car crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 3 September 1983
82 m awayRef 198312B101483
Slight
BMW R Series crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 9 September 2025
129 m awayRef 2025122501342
Slight
Van crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 16 September 1986
265 m awayRef 1986126169998
Slight
Car crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 10 June 1989
292 m awayRef 1989128330862
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198112B054881 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.