A197 crash in Northumberland on 12 November 2005 at 00:55 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A197 in Northumberland at 00:55 on Saturday 12 November 2005. The 18-year-old male driver, a 17-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male 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
- 12 Nov 2005
- Saturday, 00:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.17724, longitude -1.66991, in the NE61 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pegswood, Northumberland, NE61 3FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005100897305
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 197
- 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
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 28 January 2014
6 m awayRef 2014100060614
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 10 May 2006
20 m awayRef 2006100331306
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 31 August 1979
32 m awayRef 197910A044779
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 17 June 1991
45 m awayRef 199110A106891
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 31 October 1996
58 m awayRef 199610C048796
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1337 in Northumberland, 4 September 2023
74 m awayRef 2023101348830
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 2005100897305 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.