Serious A170 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 May 1981 at 17:36 involving a van
A van crashed on the A170 in North Yorkshire at 17:36 on Tuesday 12 May 1981. The 21-year-old female 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
- 12 May 1981
- Tuesday, 17:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.26082, longitude -0.45357, in the YO12 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198112D046381
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 170
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2018.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 17 February 2018
7 m awayRef 2018120027889
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 5 September 1988
36 m awayRef 1988128157915
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 16 February 2003
36 m awayRef 2003120470602
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 21 August 2008
64 m awayRef 2008120086542
Serious
Car crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 11 June 1986
106 m awayRef 1986126102203
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A170 in North Yorkshire, 23 September 1981
120 m awayRef 198112D106581
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198112D046381 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.