A698 crash in Northumberland on 21 July 2014 at 00:03 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 crashed on the A698 in Northumberland at 00:03 on Monday 21 July 2014. A 22-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2014
- Monday, 00:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.70458, longitude -2.14601, in the TD15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100420614
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 698
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 June 2002.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A698 in Northumberland, 16 June 2002
9 m awayRef 200210A222702
Slight
Car crash on the A698 in Northumberland, 29 May 1988
13 m awayRef 198810A206988
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A698 in Northumberland, 22 December 2001
15 m awayRef 200110A490401
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A698 in Northumberland, 21 April 2019
20 m awayRef 2019100833112
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A698 in Northumberland, 9 January 2013
25 m awayRef 2013100030213
Serious
Honda VFR750F crash on the A698 in Northumberland, 13 July 2002
29 m awayRef 2002100026402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2014100420614 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.