B6349 crash in Northumberland on 4 March 2014 at 11:26 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara crashed on the B6349 in Northumberland at 11:26 on Tuesday 4 March 2014. The 74-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2014
- Tuesday, 11:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59724, longitude -1.83432, in the NE70 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100114514
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6349
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights unlit
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2005.
Slight
DAF Trucks Fat 75CF crash on a C road in Northumberland, 13 May 2005
20 m awayRef 2005100354605
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 4 September 2017
167 m awayRef 2017100219314
Slight
Car crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 20 July 1979
237 m awayRef 197910A035779
Slight
Car crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 2 October 1984
237 m awayRef 198410A214084
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 18 February 1995
242 m awayRef 199510A001795
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on the B6349 in Northumberland, 21 April 2001
259 m awayRef 200110A147601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 2014100114514 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.