A696 crash in Northumberland on 9 July 1983 at 19:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A696 in Northumberland at 19:00 on Saturday 9 July 1983. The 30-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 1983
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.13731, longitude -1.96782, in the NE61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198310A413083
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 696
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6342
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2004.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 29 May 2004
36 m awayRef 2004100424304
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 18 June 2010
45 m awayRef 2010100386210
Slight
Car crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 8 August 1981
54 m awayRef 198110A040581
Serious
Car crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 9 April 1988
54 m awayRef 198810A103888
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 24 November 2017
58 m awayRef 2017100243184
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A696 in Northumberland, 8 September 1990
58 m awayRef 199010A112290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198310A413083 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 1983.