C road crash in Gateshead NE8 on 28 December 1985 at 10:50 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 10:50 on Saturday 28 December 1985. A 59-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1985
- Saturday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94979, longitude -1.61512, 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
- 198510D128285
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
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The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2002.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198510D128285 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.