Serious A697 crash in Northumberland on 2 June 2013 at 17:15 involving a Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson FLHR motorcycle crashed on the A697 in Northumberland at 17:15 on Sunday 2 June 2013. The 56-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jun 2013
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Harley-Davidson FLHR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.36279, longitude -1.85504, in the NE66 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013100280413
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 12 September 2008
11 m awayRef 2008100631408
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 14 January 2013
22 m awayRef 2013100023313
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 23 October 2012
25 m awayRef 2012100576312
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 27 June 2003
39 m awayRef 2003100541803
Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 8 March 1998
43 m awayRef 199810A003298
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 3 April 2023
44 m awayRef 2023101293341
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson FLHR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson FLHR)
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 2013100280413 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.