Serious unclassified road crash in North Yorkshire on 14 December 1986 at 01:40 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in North Yorkshire at 01:40 on Sunday 14 December 1986. A 31-year-old male passenger was seriously injured. The location was in the former Selby district.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 14 Dec 1986; Sunday, 01:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986126229374
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: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Entered ditch
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
24 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 31, 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 1986126229374 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.