B1298 crash in South Tyneside on 29 July 1990 at 10:22 involving a Honda VT250F motorcycle
A Honda VT250F motorcycle crashed on the B1298 in South Tyneside at 10:22 on Sunday 29 July 1990. The 37-year-old male rider and a 24-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 1990
- Sunday, 10:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda VT250F
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199010E212290
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 1990.
Slight
Suzuki GS 125 crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 26 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199010E106090
Slight
Car crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 22 March 1989
14 m awayRef 198910E104989
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 8 May 2012
16 m awayRef 2012100377412
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 4 August 1997
20 m awayRef 199710L026297
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 1 April 2005
22 m awayRef 2005100258605
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B1298 in South Tyneside, 26 December 2025
26 m awayRef 2025101688298
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda VT250F
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda VT250F)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda VT250F)
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 199010E212290 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.