Serious B6480 crash in North Yorkshire on 19 March 1984 at 22:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6480 in North Yorkshire at 22:35 on Monday 19 March 1984. The 26-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Mar 1984
- Monday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11772, longitude -2.40491, in the LA2 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198412B024484
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6480
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 16 November 1985
22 m awayRef 1985125353096
Serious
Car crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 22 June 2023
25 m awayRef 2023122300606
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 31 May 2004
30 m awayRef 2004121520479
Slight
MG Metro crash on the B6480 in North Yorkshire, 14 May 1997
184 m awayRef 1997121340955
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 8 June 2003
398 m awayRef 2003121590642
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 12 August 1996
402 m awayRef 1996122250615
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, 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 198412B024484 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.