Unclassified road crash in North Tyneside NE12 on 6 April 1979 at 23:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Tyneside at 23:45 on Friday 6 April 1979. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 1979
- Friday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.01274, longitude -1.60028, in the NE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longbenton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197910C014379
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1996.
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Ford Transit crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 5 March 2018
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Volvo crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 22 January 2016
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Dacia Logan crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 8 March 2017
28 m awayRef 2017100192587
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 3 February 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 197910C014379 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 1979.