C road crash in Gateshead NE16 on 11 June 1983 at 12:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 12:10 on Saturday 11 June 1983. A 49-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 1983
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.93645, longitude -1.69547, in the NE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whickham.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198310D309783
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 26 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198310D321383
Slight
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10 m awayRef 199810K021798
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on a C road in Gateshead, 13 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200110K333301
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 23 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197910F029679
Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 30 November 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 198310D309783 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 1983.