B6525 crash in Northumberland on 23 December 1996 at 07:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B6525 in Northumberland at 07:40 on Monday 23 December 1996. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1996
- Monday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55622, longitude -2.00631, in the NE71 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wooler.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199610A019596
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6525
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6525 in Northumberland, 28 March 2004
20 m awayRef 2004100267304
Serious
Yamaha FZ1 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 25 May 2009
20 m awayRef 2009100327009
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6525 in Northumberland, 9 February 1990
36 m awayRef 199010A202690
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B6525 in Northumberland, 21 August 2003
45 m awayRef 2003100726503
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on the B6525 in Northumberland, 22 July 2018
118 m awayRef 2018100319386
Slight
Car crash on the B6525 in Northumberland, 26 February 1983
130 m awayRef 198310A203383
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199610A019596 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.