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A195 crash in Gateshead on 18 December 1979 at 22:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A195 in Gateshead at 22:15 on Tuesday 18 December 1979. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Dec 1979
Tuesday, 22:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94682, longitude -1.53552, in the NE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead.

Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197910F065979
Council area
Gateshead
Police force
Northumbria

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
195
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
6115

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1997.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, 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 197910F065979 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 1979.