Unclassified road crash in Northumberland NE66 on 27 February 2009 at 15:45 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 15:45 on Friday 27 February 2009. 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, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2009
- Friday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40736, longitude -1.70274, in the NE66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alnwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alnwick Hotspur, Northumberland, NE66 1JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009100122009
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 19 December 1987
20 m awayRef 198710A222487
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 4 September 2009
63 m awayRef 2009100591809
Slight
Peugeot Ludix crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 27 December 2009
143 m awayRef 2009100889209
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 25 July 1996
199 m awayRef 199610A011296
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 9 March 1986
230 m awayRef 198610A204086
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 20 July 2025
245 m awayRef 2025101619317
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2009100122009 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 2009.