Serious A1068 crash in Northumberland on 11 July 1982 at 12:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A1068 in Northumberland at 12:10 on Sunday 11 July 1982. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 1982
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.31362, longitude -1.60861, in the NE65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198210A210582
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2013.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 26 February 2013
11 m awayRef 2013100095613
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 24 October 1984
14 m awayRef 198410A112884
Slight
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 3 May 2008
14 m awayRef 2008100308008
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 1 March 1980
14 m awayRef 198010A009580
Slight
Car crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 3 May 2008
20 m awayRef 2008100306608
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 14 June 2003
40 m awayRef 2003100519003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198210A210582 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 1982.