A1 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 December 1986 at 17:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire at 17:15 on Monday 1 December 1986. A 4-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured. The location was in the former Selby district.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 1 Dec 1986; Monday, 17:15
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986126221501
Council area: North Yorkshire
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 1
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 70 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: A
Second road number: 63

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 (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Waiting to turn left
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
East
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
47 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear 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 1986126221501 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.