B6531 crash in Northumberland on 7 October 2010 at 11:30 involving a Subaru Justy
A Subaru Justy and a Mitsubishi Space Star were involved in a crash on the B6531 in Northumberland at 11:30 on Thursday 7 October 2010. The 46-year-old male driver of the Mitsubishi Space Star was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2010
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Justy and Mitsubishi Space Star
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.974, longitude -2.11401, in the NE46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hexham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hexham North, Northumberland, NE46 3LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010100632410
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6531
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6531 in Northumberland, 24 February 1991
10 m awayRef 199110A403991
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the B6531 in Northumberland, 18 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200210B104602
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6531 in Northumberland, 13 October 1996
20 m awayRef 199610B020496
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 27 January 2010
20 m awayRef 2010100038710
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6531 in Northumberland, 1 November 1996
41 m awayRef 199610B023496
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the B6531 in Northumberland, 7 August 1994
58 m awayRef 199410B015994
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Justy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Space Star
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Space Star)
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 2010100632410 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.