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Serious unclassified road crash in Northumberland NE23 on 29 September 1981 at 23:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 23:10 on Tuesday 29 September 1981. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Sep 1981
Tuesday, 23:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.09201, longitude -1.57756, in the NE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cramlington.

Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198110B028681
Council area
Northumberland
Police force
Northumbria

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 January 2016.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 33, 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 198110B028681 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.