A68 crash in Northumberland on 19 September 2012 at 16:45 involving a van
A van crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 16:45 on Wednesday 19 September 2012. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2012
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94817, longitude -1.95663, in the NE44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012100523512
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 6 August 1990
6 m awayRef 199010A415790
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 20 October 1996
24 m awayRef 199610B021196
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 3 September 2025
25 m awayRef 2025101636974
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 4 January 1981
31 m awayRef 198110A001081
Slight
Volvo crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 5 October 1999
31 m awayRef 199910B366299
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 19 May 2012
32 m awayRef 2012100286812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 2012100523512 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.