Serious A183 crash in South Tyneside on 14 February 1981 at 21:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A183 in South Tyneside at 21:00 on Saturday 14 February 1981. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Feb 1981
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.99877, longitude -1.43222, in the NE33 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198110G006081
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 183
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1018
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2011.
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198110G006081 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 1981.