Serious C road crash in Northumberland NE61 on 7 June 2003 at 11:45 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on a C road in Northumberland at 11:45 on Saturday 7 June 2003. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Ford Mondeo was seriously injured and the 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Frontera and the 29-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jun 2003
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Frontera and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.20872, longitude -1.58982, 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
- 2003100478903
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 29 May 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Northumberland, 29 May 2007
10 m awayRef 2007100373507
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Northumberland, 9 April 2009
10 m awayRef 2009100239109
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on a C road in Northumberland, 2 May 2013
11 m awayRef 2013100215013
Serious
Rover Montego crash on a C road in Northumberland, 1 September 1996
221 m awayRef 199610C038296
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Northumberland, 11 November 1987
222 m awayRef 198710A116087
Slight
Rover 75 crash on a C road in Northumberland, 31 October 2005
231 m awayRef 2005100861905
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Frontera)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat 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 2003100478903 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.