A697 crash in Northumberland on 14 August 2011 at 00:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A697 in Northumberland at 00:05 on Sunday 14 August 2011. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2011
- Sunday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53568, longitude -2.00282, in the NE71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011100486011
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2024.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 21 December 2024
42 m awayRef 2024101534201
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 5 August 1979
326 m awayRef 197910A041579
Fatal
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 7 August 2012
330 m awayRef 2012100431012
Serious
Scania crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 19 November 2015
340 m awayRef 2015100714715
Serious
Kawasaki ZR1100 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 17 July 2005
372 m awayRef 2005100543405
Serious
Van crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 26 November 1979
402 m awayRef 197910A061979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2011100486011 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 2011.