Serious A65 crash in North Yorkshire on 23 April 1985 at 20:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A65 in North Yorkshire at 20:15 on Tuesday 23 April 1985. The 38-year-old male driver 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
- 23 Apr 1985
- Tuesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99132, longitude -2.13922, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985125063440
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 65
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 2 September 2016
23 m awayRef 2016120159282
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 3 October 2017
23 m awayRef 2017120177255
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 January 2020
32 m awayRef 2020122000226
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 28 April 2012
41 m awayRef 2012120067259
Slight
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 18 December 1979
45 m awayRef 197912B199879
Serious
Car crash on the A65 in North Yorkshire, 9 January 1986
50 m awayRef 1986126003994
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 38, 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 1985125063440 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 1985.