B1340 crash in Northumberland on 30 October 2005 at 20:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1340 in Northumberland at 20:00 on Sunday 30 October 2005. A 13-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2005
- Sunday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5951, longitude -1.67911, in the NE68 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005100838705
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1340
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 April 1999.
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 2 April 1999
36 m awayRef 199910A120299
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 31 March 1997
40 m awayRef 199710A005697
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 17 September 2012
49 m awayRef 2012100506212
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 8 May 2007
64 m awayRef 2007100310107
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 8 April 2025
153 m awayRef 2025101575587
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 2 November 2001
175 m awayRef 200110A406401
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2005100838705 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.