Serious A68 crash in Northumberland on 21 November 1992 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 21:00 on Saturday 21 November 1992. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 1992
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.03289, longitude -2.03282, in the NE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199210A424592
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 11 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199210A412392
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 25 March 2006
28 m awayRef 2006100198206
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 28 May 1988
30 m awayRef 198810A410088
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 7 April 1997
92 m awayRef 199710B007597
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 14 January 2018
104 m awayRef 2018100258756
Fatal
Seat Leon crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 1 October 2023
116 m awayRef 2023101367499
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 199210A424592 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 1992.