B6318 crash in Northumberland on 11 August 1985 at 13:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6318 in Northumberland at 13:40 on Sunday 11 August 1985. An 18-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 1985
- Sunday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.01151, longitude -1.99137, in the NE45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198510A415285
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6318
- 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
- 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 2 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 2 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198610A406386
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 18 May 1997
41 m awayRef 199710B011897
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 23 May 2024
46 m awayRef 2024101447383
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 24 May 2024
48 m awayRef 2024101447909
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 31 May 2002
50 m awayRef 200210B212202
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 13 November 2025
52 m awayRef 2025101668652
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198510A415285 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.