B1340 crash in Northumberland on 25 August 1987 at 17:50 involving a van
A van crashed on the B1340 in Northumberland at 17:50 on Tuesday 25 August 1987. A 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 1987
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.45873, longitude -1.66631, in the NE66 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198710A213587
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1340
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 29 April 2001
22 m awayRef 200110A184301
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 10 August 2003
22 m awayRef 2003100681403
Slight
Car crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 3 August 1981
32 m awayRef 198110A039181
Slight
Car crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 5 September 1981
32 m awayRef 198110A046281
Slight
Car crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 17 November 1981
32 m awayRef 198110A064481
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 3 August 1981
32 m awayRef 198110A038881
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198710A213587 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 1987.