Unclassified road crash in Northumberland NE69 on 4 October 2003 at 09:15 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 09:15 on Saturday 4 October 2003. The 42-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2003
- Saturday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60732, longitude -1.71441, in the NE69 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100866403
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
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 28 September 1985.
Slight
Minibus crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 28 September 1985
72 m awayRef 198510A218685
Slight
Car crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 29 May 1982
85 m awayRef 198210A207982
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 10 August 1983
85 m awayRef 198310A213583
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 5 August 1993
100 m awayRef 199310A212893
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1342 in Northumberland, 27 August 1998
114 m awayRef 199810A014998
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on the B1341 in Northumberland, 30 August 2024
117 m awayRef 2024101486007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 2003100866403 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.