Unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire on 28 December 1985 at 20:05 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 20:05 on Saturday 28 December 1985. A 21-year-old male passenger was slightly injured. The location was in the former Harrogate district.

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: 28 Dec 1985; Saturday, 20:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1985125379313
Council area: North Yorkshire
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
Lane or location
Not on carriageway
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Offside and rebounded
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 1985125379313 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.