A191 crash in North Tyneside on 16 June 1981 at 17:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A191 in North Tyneside at 17:25 on Tuesday 16 June 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 1981
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02564, longitude -1.47157, in the NE29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tynemouth.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198110C028381
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 191
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A191 in North Tyneside, 17 December 2023
9 m awayRef 2023101389425
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 17 October 2022
9 m awayRef 2022101232156
Slight
Lexmoto Gladiator crash on the A191 in North Tyneside, 1 May 2014
12 m awayRef 2014100737814
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A191 in North Tyneside, 13 December 2012
12 m awayRef 2012100696312
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A191 in North Tyneside, 23 December 2025
13 m awayRef 2025101687640
Slight
Car crash on the A191 in North Tyneside, 20 October 2014
14 m awayRef 2014100623414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198110C028381 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 1981.