B6341 crash in Northumberland on 3 June 1981 at 15:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B6341 in Northumberland at 15:45 on Wednesday 3 June 1981. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 3 Jun 1981
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.41211, longitude -1.70998, in the NE66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alnwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198110A026181
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6341
- 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
- C
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 26 November 2004.
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Volkswagen Bora crash on a C road in Northumberland, 26 November 2004
At the same spotRef 2004100970304
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Ford Escort crash on the B6341 in Northumberland, 19 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200210A226702
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6341 in Northumberland, 3 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198110A064281
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B6341 in Northumberland, 28 June 2025
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Citroen ZX crash on the B6341 in Northumberland, 29 December 2005
10 m awayRef 2005101034105
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Nissan Sunny crash on the B6341 in Northumberland, 11 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199210A209792
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198110A026181 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 1981.