A697 crash in Northumberland on 9 June 2005 at 10:25 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A697 in Northumberland at 10:25 on Thursday 9 June 2005. A 36-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2005
- Thursday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.25907, longitude -1.77387, 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
- 2005100451605
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 2007.
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 14 October 2007
At the same spotRef 2007100725807
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 27 May 2009
At the same spotRef 2009100352709
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 13 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003100973703
Slight
Land Rover crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 16 November 2011
At the same spotRef 2011100684811
Slight
Nissan Leaf crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 18 December 2021
7 m awayRef 2021101124100
Slight
Scania crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 28 February 2025
8 m awayRef 2025101559567
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2005100451605 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 2005.