A1 crash in Northumberland on 8 September 1986 at 10:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1 in Northumberland at 10:50 on Monday 8 September 1986. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1986
- Monday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56395, longitude -1.79148, in the NE70 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198610A214486
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1341
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 26 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 26 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198510A212285
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 18 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198410A220484
Serious
Lorry crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 13 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198510A209185
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B1341 in Northumberland, 18 June 2025
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1341 in Northumberland, 12 October 2016
20 m awayRef 2016100115344
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1 in Northumberland, 5 May 2012
20 m awayRef 2012100250512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, 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 198610A214486 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 1986.