Serious B6270 crash in North Yorkshire on 18 June 1981 at 21:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6270 in North Yorkshire at 21:15 on Thursday 18 June 1981. The 57-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1981
- Thursday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.37125, longitude -1.89222, in the DL11 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112C069581
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6270
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2017.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 1 December 2017
8 m awayRef 2017120215083
Serious
Ford crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 2 May 1993
40 m awayRef 1993121220325
Serious
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 29 September 1992
100 m awayRef 1992122730184
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 20 October 2002
135 m awayRef 2002030003352
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 19 July 2005
232 m awayRef 2005122000976
Slight
Lexmoto Arizona crash on the B6270 in North Yorkshire, 23 July 2015
308 m awayRef 2015120127133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 57, 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 198112C069581 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.