A1068 crash in Northumberland on 10 February 1979 at 13:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1068 in Northumberland at 13:00 on Saturday 10 February 1979. The 71-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 1979
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.14116, longitude -1.60386, in the NE22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197910B003779
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 206 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1996.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 5 July 1996
206 m awayRef 199610C029796
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 8 November 1979
224 m awayRef 197910B032479
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 29 June 2005
228 m awayRef 2005100497905
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on a C road in Northumberland, 5 April 2025
229 m awayRef 2025101574779
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 16 July 2006
231 m awayRef 2006100492806
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 25 August 1993
240 m awayRef 199310A609893
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, 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 197910B003779 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.