Serious unclassified road crash in Northumberland NE61 on 20 October 2015 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 15:30 on Tuesday 20 October 2015. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Oct 2015
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.17219, longitude -1.69275, in the NE61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morpeth.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100651415
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 4 September 1979
31 m awayRef 197910A046379
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 21 September 1999
50 m awayRef 199910C345399
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 4 June 1981
77 m awayRef 198110A025281
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 15 March 1990
80 m awayRef 199010A104290
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 8 June 2010
102 m awayRef 2010100423310
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 30 November 2018
110 m awayRef 2018100348014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2015100651415 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.