C road crash in Gateshead NE8 on 2 May 1985 at 21:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 21:45 on Thursday 2 May 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 1985
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95023, longitude -1.61277, in the NE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198510D108885
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 March 1988.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 14 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198810D105688
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Gateshead, 16 February 2017
14 m awayRef 2017100161147
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on a C road in Gateshead, 13 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199210D125492
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 16 August 2013
18 m awayRef 2013100427513
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Gateshead, 1 June 2004
20 m awayRef 2004100446604
Slight
Audi A6 crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 13 January 2022
21 m awayRef 2022101133743
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198510D108885 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 1985.