A165 crash in North Yorkshire on 29 August 1986 at 16:45 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire at 16:45 on Friday 29 August 1986. The 21-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 1986
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.19114, longitude -0.29876, in the YO14 postcode district. The location was in the former Scarborough district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986126158488
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 165
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 5 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001122170420
Serious
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 26 July 1980
14 m awayRef 198012D076580
Serious
Car crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 3 November 1980
32 m awayRef 198012D122780
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire, 31 December 2025
44 m awayRef 2025122600487
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 3 August 2025
47 m awayRef 2025122501127
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the A165 in North Yorkshire, 31 August 2005
54 m awayRef 2005122431028
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, 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 1986126158488 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 1986.