A697 crash in Northumberland on 22 December 2009 at 06:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A697 in Northumberland at 06:35 on Tuesday 22 December 2009. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.20461, longitude -1.72908, in the NE61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009100891809
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- 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
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2010.
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 13 November 2010
76 m awayRef 2010100775810
Slight
Lorry crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 5 March 1982
81 m awayRef 198210A103182
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 22 April 1982
81 m awayRef 198210A104482
Fatal
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 27 February 1985
81 m awayRef 198510A101785
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 23 July 2021
87 m awayRef 2021101069836
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 12 January 2012
111 m awayRef 2012100018712
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2009100891809 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.