C road crash in North Yorkshire YO8 on 18 January 1983 at 17:50 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in North Yorkshire at 17:50 on Tuesday 18 January 1983. The 34-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 1983
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80604, longitude -0.98895, in the YO8 postcode district. The location was in the former Selby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198312A010383
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198312A010383 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 1983.