Serious B6343 crash in Northumberland on 28 March 1997 at 16:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6343 in Northumberland at 16:00 on Friday 28 March 1997. The 31-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Mar 1997
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.16561, longitude -1.78696, in the NE61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199710C013097
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6343
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 192 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 May 1997.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6343 in Northumberland, 3 May 1997
192 m awayRef 199710C017997
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the B6343 in Northumberland, 9 July 2008
192 m awayRef 2008100468208
Serious
Honda crash on the B6343 in Northumberland, 22 September 2013
205 m awayRef 2013100501413
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B6343 in Northumberland, 21 June 1998
218 m awayRef 199810C025698
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6343 in Northumberland, 30 October 2021
253 m awayRef 2021101104147
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6343 in Northumberland, 25 May 1999
259 m awayRef 199910C188199
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 199710C013097 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.