B6346 crash in Northumberland on 14 February 1985 at 11:20 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the B6346 in Northumberland at 11:20 on Thursday 14 February 1985. The 66-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1985
- Thursday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.41282, longitude -1.70382, in the NE66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alnwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198510A202785
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6346
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 7 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B6346 in Northumberland, 7 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198310A206583
Slight
Car crash on the B6346 in Northumberland, 9 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198310A206683
Serious
Van crash on the B6346 in Northumberland, 11 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198310A206883
Slight
Car crash on the B6346 in Northumberland, 1 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198610A202286
Serious
Car crash on the B6346 in Northumberland, 17 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198610A206786
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6346 in Northumberland, 12 May 2025
15 m awayRef 2025101589408
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, 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 198510A202785 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.