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B1298 crash in South Tyneside on 26 April 1990 at 12:50 involving a Suzuki GS 125 motorcycle

A Suzuki GS 125 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B1298 in South Tyneside at 12:50 on Thursday 26 April 1990. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Apr 1990
Thursday, 12:50
Vehicles
1
Suzuki GS 125
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97248, longitude -1.43994, in the NE34 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields.

Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199010E106090
Council area
South Tyneside
Police force
Northumbria

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
1298
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
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki GS 125

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki GS 125)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199010E106090 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 1990.