A68 crash in Northumberland on 9 October 2013 at 08:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A68 in Northumberland at 08:00 on Wednesday 9 October 2013. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90615, longitude -1.95162, in the DH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013100553413
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2004.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 17 November 2004
11 m awayRef 2004100952404
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 9 January 2013
23 m awayRef 2013100014013
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 2 May 2025
23 m awayRef 2025101585238
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 18 June 2009
25 m awayRef 2009100393209
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 16 August 1990
25 m awayRef 199010A416690
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 3 December 1998
25 m awayRef 199810B026198
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2013100553413 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.