Serious unclassified road crash in Northumberland NE70 on 20 September 2000 at 15:20 involving a Ford Escort
A bicycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 15:20 on Wednesday 20 September 2000. The 10-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 2000
- Wednesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59693, longitude -1.82985, in the NE70 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200010A351600
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 1992.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 16 May 1992
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Slight
Car crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 23 August 1984
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Slight
Bus crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 24 January 1986
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 10, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200010A351600 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 2000.