A189 crash in Northumberland on 22 May 1998 at 19:45 involving a Citroen ZX
A Citroen ZX crashed on the A189 in Northumberland at 19:45 on Friday 22 May 1998. The 66-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 1998
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.11083, longitude -1.56419, in the NE24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199810C021598
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 189
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 189
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2000.
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A189 in Northumberland, 4 January 1995
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen ZX)
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 199810C021598 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 1998.