A68 crash in Northumberland on 26 January 2014 at 05:01 involving a car
A car crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 05:01 on Sunday 26 January 2014. The 35-year-old male driver and a 40-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2014
- Sunday, 05:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.27186, longitude -2.25725, in the NE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100034614
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 28 August 1984
3 m awayRef 198410A417884
Serious
Lorry crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 17 May 1980
3 m awayRef 198010A021880
Slight
Van crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 25 February 1986
3 m awayRef 198610A404386
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 21 August 2012
4 m awayRef 2012100456412
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 25 September 1995
16 m awayRef 199510B019295
Slight
Lorry crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 14 October 1987
29 m awayRef 198710A420987
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014100034614 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 2014.