A696 crash in Northumberland on 8 August 1981 at 11:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A696 in Northumberland at 11:45 on Saturday 8 August 1981. An 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and the 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 1981
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.13686, longitude -1.96813, in the NE61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198110A040581
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 696
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6342
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2010.
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 18 June 2010
10 m awayRef 2010100386210
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 29 May 2004
20 m awayRef 2004100424304
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 8 September 1990
36 m awayRef 199010A112290
Serious
Car crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 9 April 1988
42 m awayRef 198810A103888
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 24 November 2017
54 m awayRef 2017100243184
Slight
Car crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 9 July 1983
54 m awayRef 198310A413083
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198110A040581 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.