A64 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 May 1983 at 21:00 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A64 in North Yorkshire at 21:00 on Wednesday 4 May 1983. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1983
- Wednesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87219, longitude -1.27481, in the LS24 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
- 198312A075483
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 64
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2007.
Slight
Scania crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 6 March 2007
14 m awayRef 2007120650593
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 7 May 2017
19 m awayRef 2017120078187
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 13 July 2012
20 m awayRef 2012120113255
Slight
Car crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 10 January 2007
54 m awayRef 2007120100244
Slight
Hyundai Kona crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 2 February 2023
58 m awayRef 2023122300442
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire, 27 August 1994
73 m awayRef 1994122390446
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198312A075483 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.