B6344 crash in Northumberland on 17 February 2012 at 18:02 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the B6344 in Northumberland at 18:02 on Friday 17 February 2012. The 68-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2012
- Friday, 18:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.30292, longitude -1.87755, in the NE65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012100102712
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6344
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 23 September 1991
4 m awayRef 199110A219991
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 18 January 1993
6 m awayRef 199310A201993
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 18 November 2000
35 m awayRef 200010A445100
Slight
Car crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 19 July 1985
40 m awayRef 198510A212185
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 13 March 1982
40 m awayRef 198210A203882
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6344 in Northumberland, 6 May 1985
40 m awayRef 198510A206985
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2012100102712 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 2012.