B6160 crash in North Yorkshire on 3 December 1985 at 20:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6160 in North Yorkshire at 20:30 on Tuesday 3 December 1985. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.11102, longitude -2.0405, 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
- 1985125363529
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1982.
Slight
Van crash on the A6160 in North Yorkshire, 27 November 1982
58 m awayRef 198212B170482
Slight
Car crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 14 September 1982
58 m awayRef 198212B127482
Serious
Triumph crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 25 May 1997
71 m awayRef 1997121450552
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 18 July 2025
350 m awayRef 2025122501156
Serious
Honda VFR750F crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 21 April 1996
381 m awayRef 1996121120431
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6160 in North Yorkshire, 28 August 1995
453 m awayRef 1995122400588
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 1985125363529 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.