Serious A1 crash in North Yorkshire on 12 May 1983 at 23:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1 in North Yorkshire at 23:10 on Thursday 12 May 1983. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 May 1983
- Thursday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71908, longitude -1.26775, in the WF11 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198312A091383
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 March 2001.
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 10 March 2001
10 m awayRef 2001130275001
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 18 March 1989
22 m awayRef 1989128288168
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 20 December 1994
22 m awayRef 1994123570147
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 5 May 1991
22 m awayRef 1991121310364
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire, 17 November 1991
32 m awayRef 1991123630207
Slight
MAN crash on the A1 in Wakefield, 9 December 2004
81 m awayRef 2004131257204
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198312A091383 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.