A6085 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 March 2022 at 14:30 involving a Triumph Street Triple motorcycle
A car and a Triumph Street Triple motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 14:30 on Friday 18 March 2022. The 46-year-old male rider of the Triumph Street Triple motorcycle was 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
- 18 Mar 2022
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Triumph Street Triple
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9826, longitude -1.74246, in the NE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Throckley, Walbottle & Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 8PD 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
- 2022101155495
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6085
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1984.
Slight
Bus crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 10 August 1984
12 m awayRef 198410B411684
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 24 July 1997
12 m awayRef 199710G058897
Fatal
Bedford crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 November 1990
20 m awayRef 199010B422890
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 28 March 1996
20 m awayRef 199610G021296
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 November 1994
20 m awayRef 199410G031794
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 14 October 1994
20 m awayRef 199410G029494
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Triumph Street Triple
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 765 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Street Triple)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2022101155495 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 2022.