A189 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 20 September 2007 at 17:51 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A189 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 17:51 on Thursday 20 September 2007. The 54-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2007
- Thursday, 17:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02451, longitude -1.59218, in the NE12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Camperdown, North Tyneside, NE12 7NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle upon Tyne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100658507
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 189
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 22 September 2015
7 m awayRef 2015100572415
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 25 December 2002
10 m awayRef 2002100597702
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 14 August 2003
10 m awayRef 2003100686603
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 27 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199910I394799
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 1 November 2025
12 m awayRef 2025101662100
Slight
Car crash on the A189 in North Tyneside, 30 May 1988
20 m awayRef 198810C310088
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,854 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2007100658507 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 2007.