Serious A629 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 June 1981 at 01:00 involving a van
A van crashed on the A629 in North Yorkshire at 01:00 on Thursday 18 June 1981. The 39-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1981
- Thursday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.91285, longitude -1.99707, in the BD20 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112B083081
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 629
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 27 February 1992
10 m awayRef 1992120580619
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 15 May 2004
10 m awayRef 2004121360870
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 22 July 1994
10 m awayRef 1994122030955
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 20 January 2012
21 m awayRef 2012120010147
Fatal
Yamaha R6 crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 14 July 2010
36 m awayRef 2010120117481
Slight
Lorry crash on the A629 in North Yorkshire, 18 August 1981
40 m awayRef 198112B118381
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198112B083081 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.