Serious B6278 crash in Northumberland on 28 August 2003 at 19:15 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the B6278 in Northumberland at 19:15 on Thursday 28 August 2003. A 23-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Aug 2003
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.86099, longitude -1.93204, in the DH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100727103
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6278
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the B6278 in Northumberland, 19 December 2020
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Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B6278 in Northumberland, 26 September 2009
89 m awayRef 2009100634909
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the B6278 in Northumberland, 11 September 2013
111 m awayRef 2013100498613
Slight
ERF crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 3 February 2004
228 m awayRef 2004100106504
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 19 August 2003
234 m awayRef 2003100733403
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 16 June 1979
242 m awayRef 197910A029579
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2003100727103 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.