B6318 crash in Northumberland on 11 July 1989 at 12:00 involving a van
Two vans and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6318 in Northumberland at 12:00 on Tuesday 11 July 1989. The 54-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 1989
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Van and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.00775, longitude -1.86942, in the NE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198910A415689
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6318
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 July 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 14 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199310A411593
Slight
Car crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 13 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198110A009881
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 15 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198110A009781
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 23 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199310A408793
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 6 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025101651172
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B6318 in Northumberland, 15 September 2017
4 m awayRef 2017100220092
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist, 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 198910A415689 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 1989.