Serious A64 crash in North Yorkshire on 22 April 1981 at 14:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A64 in North Yorkshire at 14:05 on Wednesday 22 April 1981. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Apr 1981
- Wednesday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.19675, longitude -0.4483, in the YO12 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112D039181
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 64
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 12 February 2009
10 m awayRef 2009120024286
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 22 August 2003
60 m awayRef 2003122341096
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 7 April 2022
61 m awayRef 2022122200603
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 15 July 1990
70 m awayRef 1990121960413
Slight
Car crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 31 December 1988
70 m awayRef 1988128231490
Slight
Car crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 3 April 1985
70 m awayRef 1985125051191
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198112D039181 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.