A69 crash in Northumberland on 14 February 1990 at 04:15 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A69 in Northumberland at 04:15 on Wednesday 14 February 1990. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1990
- Wednesday, 04:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97932, longitude -2.21902, in the NE47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199010A402990
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 69
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A69 in Northumberland, 11 December 1981
64 m awayRef 198110A069481
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A69 in Northumberland, 27 May 1996
108 m awayRef 199610B009596
Fatal
Volvo S80 crash on the A69 in Northumberland, 12 April 2013
119 m awayRef 2013100182213
Slight
Lorry crash on the A69 in Northumberland, 9 February 1987
161 m awayRef 198710A402387
Slight
Scania crash on the A69 in Northumberland, 18 October 1994
161 m awayRef 199410B022494
Serious
Van crash on the A69 in Northumberland, 13 January 1981
197 m awayRef 198110A002081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 199010A402990 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 1990.