A1068 crash in Northumberland on 5 November 2007 at 01:27 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A1068 in Northumberland at 01:27 on Monday 5 November 2007. The 37-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
- 5 Nov 2007
- Monday, 01:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.0753, longitude -1.62737, in the NE23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100779307
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1068
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 25 November 1989
32 m awayRef 198910C522189
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 21 November 2015
36 m awayRef 2015100748315
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 25 April 2007
40 m awayRef 2007100273707
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 21 November 2011
40 m awayRef 2011100695311
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 15 July 2014
51 m awayRef 2014100409414
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A1068 in Northumberland, 29 July 2009
70 m awayRef 2009100493109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2007100779307 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.