A697 crash in Northumberland on 23 September 2015 at 08:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A697 in Northumberland at 08:45 on Wednesday 23 September 2015. The 18-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- 23 Sep 2015
- Wednesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.34974, longitude -1.84645, in the NE66 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100629015
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 6341
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2025.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 26 September 2025
2 m awayRef 2025101647338
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 16 March 2024
4 m awayRef 2024101421397
Serious
Volvo XC90 crash on the B6341 in Northumberland, 18 September 2024
4 m awayRef 2024101493235
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 23 August 2002
5 m awayRef 2002100159902
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 29 January 1997
5 m awayRef 199710A001497
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A697 in Northumberland, 4 June 2003
5 m awayRef 2003100471703
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2015100629015 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 2015.