Serious A6108 crash in North Yorkshire on 10 November 1981 at 17:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A6108 in North Yorkshire at 17:10 on Tuesday 10 November 1981. A 26-year-old female passenger was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Nov 1981
- Tuesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25483, longitude -1.7068, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112C129781
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6108
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 197 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2007.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 14 November 2007
197 m awayRef 2007123180205
Slight
Car crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 15 December 2016
218 m awayRef 2016120225609
Serious
Car crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 17 August 1989
228 m awayRef 1989121036043
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 1990
358 m awayRef 1990121880383
Slight
Car crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 14 May 1988
366 m awayRef 1988128081326
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A6108 in North Yorkshire, 17 September 2025
403 m awayRef 2025122501389
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198112C129781 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.