C road crash in Northumberland NE65 on 10 April 2003 at 08:30 involving an MCW bus
An MCW bus crashed on a C road in Northumberland at 08:30 on Thursday 10 April 2003. A 12-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2003
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MCW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.35205, longitude -1.61973, in the NE65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100314703
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1985.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Northumberland, 25 September 1985
72 m awayRef 198510A217785
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Northumberland, 30 March 2000
85 m awayRef 200010A116100
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 1 December 1986
91 m awayRef 198610D130786
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Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Northumberland, 3 December 2010
230 m awayRef 2010100808910
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Citroen Xantia crash on a C road in Northumberland, 13 October 2002
286 m awayRef 2002100301102
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Northumberland, 30 November 2007
444 m awayRef 2007100856807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MCW
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,045 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCW)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 2003100314703 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 2003.