B6265 crash in North Yorkshire on 30 May 1981 at 02:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6265 in North Yorkshire at 02:20 on Saturday 30 May 1981. The 17-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
- 30 May 1981
- Saturday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12685, longitude -1.49164, in the HG4 postcode district. The location was in the former Harrogate district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112C060681
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6265
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 2014.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 30 July 2014
28 m awayRef 2014120127482
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 9 December 1991
36 m awayRef 1991123430443
Slight
Ford crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 26 February 2021
49 m awayRef 2021122100273
Serious
Car crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 8 March 1986
73 m awayRef 1986126039740
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 10 May 2000
73 m awayRef 2000121310385
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B6265 in North Yorkshire, 11 March 2005
81 m awayRef 2005120700029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198112C060681 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.