A197 crash in Northumberland on 6 February 2001 at 21:12 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A197 in Northumberland at 21:12 on Tuesday 6 February 2001. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 2001
- Tuesday, 21:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.18077, longitude -1.6468, in the NE61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pegswood.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200110C048701
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 197
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 2 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200210C172502
Slight
Car crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 23 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198910A107189
Slight
Car crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 14 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002100416902
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 9 June 1994
10 m awayRef 199410C022394
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Northumberland, 17 April 2015
12 m awayRef 2015100208415
Serious
Car crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 17 July 1981
14 m awayRef 198110A033781
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200110C048701 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 2001.