A1061 crash in Northumberland on 28 October 1983 at 16:10 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A1061 in Northumberland at 16:10 on Friday 28 October 1983. A 52-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 1983
- Friday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.11391, longitude -1.52105, in the NE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blyth.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198310C514983
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1999.
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Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the B1523 in Northumberland, 11 September 2003
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 16 July 1981
54 m awayRef 198110B018081
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the B1523 in Northumberland, 20 September 1996
70 m awayRef 199610C043196
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 14 March 1983
71 m awayRef 198310C503783
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 198310C514983 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.