A68 crash in Northumberland on 22 August 2007 at 02:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 02:45 on Wednesday 22 August 2007. The 29-year-old male driver was 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
- 22 Aug 2007
- Wednesday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90683, longitude -1.95224, in the NE44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100588407
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 2 January 1982
51 m awayRef 198210A400182
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 8 February 2011
63 m awayRef 2011100079711
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 7 February 2021
66 m awayRef 2021101019789
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 1 September 1987
71 m awayRef 198710A417887
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 9 October 2013
85 m awayRef 2013100553413
Slight
Leyland crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 17 November 2004
85 m awayRef 2004100952404
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2007100588407 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.