A697 crash in Northumberland on 11 July 2003 at 21:42 involving a Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle
A Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle crashed on the A697 in Northumberland at 21:42 on Friday 11 July 2003. The 38-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2003
- Friday, 21:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR1100XX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.28263, longitude -1.78349, 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
- 2003100588303
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6344
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2002.
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 26 August 2002
14 m awayRef 2002100152502
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 8 November 2017
17 m awayRef 2017100237255
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 13 January 2020
20 m awayRef 2020100918874
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 27 August 2003
22 m awayRef 2003100726703
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 1 November 2018
33 m awayRef 2018100340709
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 27 May 2017
34 m awayRef 2017100207788
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR1100XX
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR1100XX)
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 2003100588303 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.