B6160 crash in North Yorkshire on 4 December 1984 at 16:04 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire at 16:04 on Tuesday 4 December 1984. The 47-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1984
- Tuesday, 16:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13394, longitude -2.04358, in the BD23 postcode district. The location was in the former Craven district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984124200422
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6160
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2006.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 10 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006123450352
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 18 November 2009
73 m awayRef 2009120200134
Slight
Car crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 4 October 1983
117 m awayRef 198312B114183
Serious
Peugeot Expert crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 28 June 2024
119 m awayRef 2024122400815
Slight
Triumph Tiger crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 25 June 2021
177 m awayRef 2021122100882
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 26 July 2020
282 m awayRef 2020122000694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 1984124200422 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 1984.