A68 crash in Northumberland on 19 February 2014 at 07:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 07:50 on Wednesday 19 February 2014. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2014
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9146, longitude -1.95434, 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
- 2014100097714
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 June 2004.
Fatal
Renault Clio crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 27 June 2004
16 m awayRef 2004100513904
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 1 April 1992
235 m awayRef 199210A405992
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 6 September 2002
235 m awayRef 2002100192102
Slight
Renault crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 28 January 2002
236 m awayRef 200210B037602
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 15 October 2000
246 m awayRef 200010B388700
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 24 November 2008
246 m awayRef 2008100841808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2014100097714 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.