Serious B6524 crash in Northumberland on 27 May 2004 at 15:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6524 in Northumberland at 15:30 on Thursday 27 May 2004. The 57-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 2004
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.12756, longitude -1.80143, 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
- 2004100427204
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6524
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 116 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2020.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6524 in Northumberland, 18 November 2020
116 m awayRef 2020101000061
Serious
Volvo V70 crash on the B6524 in Northumberland, 10 August 2015
155 m awayRef 2015100466515
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6524 in Northumberland, 2 July 1997
165 m awayRef 199710C027497
Slight
Car crash on the B6524 in Northumberland, 26 August 1984
192 m awayRef 198410A110084
Slight
Lada Samara crash on the B6524 in Northumberland, 30 April 1990
192 m awayRef 199010A105690
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B6524 in Northumberland, 6 April 2001
213 m awayRef 200110C128301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,284 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2004100427204 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 2004.