B1340 crash in Northumberland on 6 May 1996 at 04:30 involving a Rover Mini
A Rover Mini crashed on the B1340 in Northumberland at 04:30 on Monday 6 May 1996. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 1996
- Monday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59876, longitude -1.68179, in the NE68 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199610A006296
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1340
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 98 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 2007.
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 10 May 2007
98 m awayRef 2007100356607
Serious
Porsche Taycan crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 30 March 2023
103 m awayRef 2023101292158
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 2 January 2004
108 m awayRef 2004100018404
Slight
Car crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 11 October 1979
141 m awayRef 197910A054579
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 2 November 2001
273 m awayRef 200110A406401
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 8 April 2025
296 m awayRef 2025101575587
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Mini)
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 199610A006296 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 1996.