Serious unclassified road crash in Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 on 16 August 1981 at 16:25 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne at 16:25 on Sunday 16 August 1981. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Aug 1981
- Sunday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97131, longitude -1.62678, in the NE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198110E039081
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 6115
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198110E039081 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 1981.