B1340 crash in Northumberland on 11 October 1979 at 11:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1340 in Northumberland at 11:00 on Thursday 11 October 1979. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 1979
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59786, longitude -1.68021, in the NE68 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197910A054579
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1340
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 2 January 2004
41 m awayRef 2004100018404
Serious
Porsche Taycan crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 30 March 2023
50 m awayRef 2023101292158
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 10 May 2007
61 m awayRef 2007100356607
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 6 May 1996
141 m awayRef 199610A006296
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 2 November 2001
143 m awayRef 200110A406401
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 8 April 2025
165 m awayRef 2025101575587
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197910A054579 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.