Serious A1079 crash in North Yorkshire on 13 September 1983 at 08:30 involving a lorry
A lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1079 in North Yorkshire at 08:30 on Tuesday 13 September 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 13 Sep 1983
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95405, longitude -0.96511, in the YO19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198312A147883
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1079
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2011.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A1079 in York, 2 March 2011
30 m awayRef 2011120033814
Serious
Car crash on the A1079 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 1983
60 m awayRef 198312A115883
Slight
Car crash on the A1079 in North Yorkshire, 16 December 1980
81 m awayRef 198012A231780
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1079 in North Yorkshire, 18 July 1995
92 m awayRef 1995121990490
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1079 in York, 8 January 1998
92 m awayRef 1998120080341
Slight
Bedford crash on the A1079 in North Yorkshire, 15 January 1992
92 m awayRef 1992120150341
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198312A147883 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.