Serious B1257 crash in North Yorkshire on 5 May 1983 at 02:18 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1257 in North Yorkshire at 02:18 on Thursday 5 May 1983. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 1983
- Thursday, 02:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.14473, longitude -0.77803, in the YO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Malton. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198312D033983
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1257
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 1993.
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 8 February 1993
22 m awayRef 1993120390417
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1248 in North Yorkshire, 14 December 2004
22 m awayRef 2004123490946
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 9 January 2017
28 m awayRef 2017120004663
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 28 August 2014
36 m awayRef 2014120146633
Serious
Car crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 9 August 1989
63 m awayRef 1989121030187
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 27 September 2023
79 m awayRef 2023122301196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, 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 198312D033983 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.