Serious A68 crash in Northumberland on 24 July 2010 at 16:00 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 16:00 on Saturday 24 July 2010. The 49-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
- 24 Jul 2010
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.08885, longitude -2.10995, in the NE48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010100463410
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
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, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2008.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 17 May 2008
177 m awayRef 2008100346808
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 15 March 2016
187 m awayRef 2016100061909
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 7 December 1999
189 m awayRef 199910B456599
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Northumberland, 30 April 1979
221 m awayRef 197910A017579
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Northumberland, 7 December 1992
230 m awayRef 199210A425792
Slight
Lambretta crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 22 May 2009
374 m awayRef 2009100340609
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2010100463410 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 2010.