A1068 crash in Northumberland on 11 October 1985 at 18:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A1068 in Northumberland at 18:30 on Friday 11 October 1985. The 38-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 1985
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.28043, longitude -1.60091, 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
- 198510A113085
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 February 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 3 February 1983
At the same spotRef 198310A101883
Serious
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 25 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198510A103585
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 18 October 2008
50 m awayRef 2008100734008
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 31 January 1996
67 m awayRef 199610C005796
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1330 in Northumberland, 24 December 2004
76 m awayRef 2004101088804
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 21 December 2009
76 m awayRef 2009100891209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 198510A113085 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 1985.