Dishforth was the obvious candidate for the apocryphal 'skid marks'. The E/W -ish runway threshold was only just over the fence from the A1. We used to use it reasonably often on 'Pigs' but less so on the Bevs. Don't ever recall any skid mark incidents but one of our night training details took out the approach lights at our relief landing ground. This was not discovered until the following morning!!
The peri track, which ran parallel to the A1, was, almost certainly, responsible for a multi fatality accident at the road crossing from the Ripon road. Cars going South on the A1 could easily be mistaken for aircraft taxying and, it's assumed, that one driver did so. Easily done, as I discovered, returning from Ripon one night - only just realised what I was seeing and stopped in time
