Serious A19 crash in North Yorkshire on 2 December 1983 at 08:50 involving a lorry
A lorry and two cars were involved in a crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire at 08:50 on Friday 2 December 1983. The 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Dec 1983
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Lorry and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76748, longitude -1.09031, in the YO8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brayton. 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
- 198312A204083
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1999.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 1 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999120520376
Serious
Volvo crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 25 April 2007
At the same spotRef 2007121150259
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 21 July 1983
10 m awayRef 198312A122883
Slight
Car crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 26 September 2007
10 m awayRef 2007122700106
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 25 May 2025
11 m awayRef 2025122500697
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 18 August 2014
11 m awayRef 2014120140115
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 198312A204083 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.