Serious A1 crash in North Yorkshire on 1 October 1992 at 23:45 involving a Datsun
A Datsun crashed on the A1 in North Yorkshire at 23:45 on Thursday 1 October 1992. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Oct 1992
- Thursday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Datsun
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50991, longitude -1.62003, in the DL2 postcode district. The location was in the former Richmondshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992122750873
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Datsun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Datsun)
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 1992122750873 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 1992.