A1 crash in Northumberland on 29 March 1985 at 13:05 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1 in Northumberland at 13:05 on Friday 29 March 1985. The 44-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 1985
- Friday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67102, longitude -1.91492, in the TD15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198510A204885
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 April 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 5 April 1980
At the same spotRef 198010A014380
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 10 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198610A204586
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 10 August 1983
At the same spotRef 198310A213683
Serious
Citroen C5 crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 5 October 2025
28 m awayRef 2025101650527
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 20 July 1991
32 m awayRef 199110A214191
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 26 September 2011
40 m awayRef 2011100568011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, 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 198510A204885 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.