B143 crash in North Tyneside on 2 February 1985 at 23:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B143 in North Tyneside at 23:25 on Saturday 2 February 1985. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 1985
- Saturday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.00855, longitude -1.44788, in the NE29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tynemouth.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198510C101785
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 143
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 143
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 17 July 2014
2 m awayRef 2014100404914
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 30 April 2012
3 m awayRef 2012100219712
Slight
Volvo crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 27 December 2024
4 m awayRef 2024101535351
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 22 February 2016
4 m awayRef 2016100124216
Slight
Wrightbus Streetlite crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 17 September 2024
5 m awayRef 2024101492603
Slight
Car crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 18 May 1999
14 m awayRef 199910H176899
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198510C101785 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 1985.