B6344 crash in Northumberland on 20 July 2003 at 13:49 involving a Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle crashed on the B6344 in Northumberland at 13:49 on Sunday 20 July 2003. The 31-year-old male rider was 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
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2003
- Sunday, 13:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha FZS 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.28335, longitude -1.78302, 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
- 2003100613703
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6344
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 697
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, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 July 1998.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 19 July 1998
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Honda CRV crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 1 November 2018
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Serious
Yamaha crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 27 May 2017
53 m awayRef 2017100207788
Serious
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 5 September 1987
58 m awayRef 198710A214987
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 13 January 2020
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Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 8 November 2017
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZS 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZS 600)
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 2003100613703 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.