A697 crash in Northumberland on 25 June 1997 at 22:25 involving a Rover Montego
A Rover Montego crashed on the A697 in Northumberland at 22:25 on Wednesday 25 June 1997. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.52684, longitude -1.9976, in the NE71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199710A009197
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 20 October 1990
51 m awayRef 199010A223390
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 6 August 2023
67 m awayRef 2023101364954
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 9 February 1993
106 m awayRef 199310A202693
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 29 May 1998
106 m awayRef 199810A007198
Serious
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 14 May 1983
112 m awayRef 198310A207083
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 2 August 2008
112 m awayRef 2008100531108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Montego)
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 199710A009197 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 1997.