Serious A197 crash in Northumberland on 10 May 2013 at 20:10 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry hit a pedestrian on the A197 in Northumberland at 20:10 on Friday 10 May 2013. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 10 May 2013
- Friday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.17117, longitude -1.6843, in the NE61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013100263213
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 197
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 April 1987.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 3 April 1987
3 m awayRef 198710A102887
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 11 March 1996
7 m awayRef 199610C011096
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 5 June 2008
12 m awayRef 2008100384708
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 24 January 2015
13 m awayRef 2015100049215
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 1 August 2014
14 m awayRef 2014100456614
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the B1337 in Northumberland, 30 January 2020
14 m awayRef 2020100925366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,021 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2013100263213 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 2013.