A189 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 1 April 1985 at 00:03 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A189 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 00:03 on Monday 1 April 1985. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 1985
- Monday, 00:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.99536, longitude -1.61671, in the NE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198510B503885
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 189
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6125
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2009.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A189 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 8 January 2009
At the same spotRef 2009100009509
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1318 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 February 2006
At the same spotRef 2006100091606
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A189 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 September 2008
At the same spotRef 2008100661208
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A189 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 20 July 2006
At the same spotRef 2006100511006
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A189 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 26 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200010G148800
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the B1318 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 19 July 2011
At the same spotRef 2011100409111
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198510B503885 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 1985.