A1068 crash in Northumberland on 17 June 1979 at 23:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1068 in Northumberland at 23:25 on Sunday 17 June 1979. A 22-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1979
- Sunday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.32151, longitude -1.60569, in the NE65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197910A030779
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1068
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 99 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 21 May 1979
99 m awayRef 197910A022579
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 24 July 1981
106 m awayRef 198110A035781
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 14 September 2007
106 m awayRef 2007100666707
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 27 December 2009
117 m awayRef 2009100890809
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 13 September 1985
184 m awayRef 198510A216485
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 15 November 1985
325 m awayRef 198510A220185
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 197910A030779 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Northumberland road accident statistics for 1979.