B1523 crash in Northumberland on 20 July 2007 at 14:30 involving a Mitsubishi L200 van
A Mitsubishi L200 van hit a pedestrian on the B1523 in Northumberland at 14:30 on Friday 20 July 2007. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2007
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi L200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.11278, longitude -1.52653, in the NE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blyth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newsham, Northumberland, NE24 4TL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100498707
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1523
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 3 December 1988
32 m awayRef 198810C519088
Slight
Car crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 20 July 1989
36 m awayRef 198910C511489
Serious
Car crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 2 May 1988
40 m awayRef 198810C507088
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 21 February 1993
41 m awayRef 199310C502593
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 12 March 2001
41 m awayRef 200110C107501
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B1523 in Northumberland, 5 January 2007
41 m awayRef 2007100007507
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2007100498707 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 2007.