A167 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 April 1981 at 19:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A167 in North Yorkshire at 19:00 on Saturday 4 April 1981. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1981
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.21252, longitude -1.41576, in the YO7 postcode district. The location was in the former Hambleton district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112C037281
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 22 February 1982
At the same spotRef 198212C017982
Slight
Minibus crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 21 November 1993
At the same spotRef 1993123250432
Slight
Car crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 20 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198412C035884
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 1997
At the same spotRef 1997121590285
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 14 September 2015
17 m awayRef 2015120162596
Fatal
Toyota Avensis crash on the A167 in North Yorkshire, 16 December 2004
22 m awayRef 2004123510811
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198112C037281 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.