A697 crash in Northumberland on 20 April 1980 at 18:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A697 in Northumberland at 18:10 on Sunday 20 April 1980. The 27-year-old male driver, a 36-year-old male passenger and a 36-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1980
- Sunday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54436, longitude -2.01027, in the NE71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198010A017480
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 24 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198810A219688
Serious
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 18 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198210A213182
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 4 January 1986
At the same spotRef 198610A200486
Fatal
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 5 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198310A200283
Serious
Volvo 343 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 12 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199010A216490
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 3 February 1990
10 m awayRef 199010A201990
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198010A017480 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 1980.