Serious A6079 crash in Northumberland on 13 July 2008 at 14:00 involving a Honda CBR600RR motorcycle
A Honda CBR600RR motorcycle crashed on the A6079 in Northumberland at 14:00 on Sunday 13 July 2008. The 33-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jul 2008
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR600RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.03341, longitude -2.11042, in the NE46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008100488608
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6079
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A6079 in Northumberland, 31 July 1987
32 m awayRef 198710A414187
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A6079 in Northumberland, 17 December 2016
98 m awayRef 2016100173753
Slight
Car crash on the A6079 in Northumberland, 30 November 1984
166 m awayRef 198410A425084
Fatal
Suzuki Swift crash on the A6079 in Northumberland, 27 January 2002
255 m awayRef 200210B037502
Slight
Car crash on the A6079 in Northumberland, 2 October 1982
256 m awayRef 198210A418582
Serious
Van crash on the A6079 in Northumberland, 26 May 1988
272 m awayRef 198810A409888
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR600RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR600RR)
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 2008100488608 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 2008.