C road crash in Gateshead NE10 on 3 September 1981 at 15:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 15:00 on Thursday 3 September 1981. The 6-year-old male cyclist 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 Sep 1981
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94328, longitude -1.576, in the NE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198110F041681
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 1994.
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Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 23 July 2019
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 11 February 1980
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 6, 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 198110F041681 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 1981.