Serious B6345 crash in Northumberland on 1 October 2007 at 15:20 involving a Yamaha R6 motorcycle
A Yamaha R6 motorcycle crashed on the B6345 in Northumberland at 15:20 on Monday 1 October 2007. The 27-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Oct 2007
- Monday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.31104, longitude -1.60783, in the NE65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100684507
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B1330 in Northumberland, 23 June 1987
22 m awayRef 198710A209087
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6345 in Northumberland, 18 May 1999
22 m awayRef 199910A172299
Slight
Van crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 27 February 1986
60 m awayRef 198610A203686
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B6345 in Northumberland, 17 December 2013
75 m awayRef 2013100692513
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 18 June 1981
114 m awayRef 198110A028081
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Northumberland, 18 August 1988
210 m awayRef 198810A212788
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha R6)
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 2007100684507 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.