Serious B6530 crash in Northumberland on 23 May 1984 at 16:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6530 in Northumberland at 16:45 on Wednesday 23 May 1984. The 18-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
- 23 May 1984
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96747, longitude -1.98357, in the NE43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198410A409084
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6530
- 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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B6350 in Northumberland, 16 October 1982
100 m awayRef 198210A419782
Slight
Audi Q8 crash on the B6530 in Northumberland, 12 September 2023
104 m awayRef 2023101351910
Slight
Lorry crash on the B6530 in Northumberland, 3 October 1980
300 m awayRef 198010A055580
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B6530 in Northumberland, 3 December 2007
342 m awayRef 2007100853207
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B6530 in Northumberland, 5 June 1993
390 m awayRef 199310A409693
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 21 May 2002
390 m awayRef 200210B186702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 198410A409084 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 1984.