Serious A1172 crash in Northumberland on 11 December 2015 at 06:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1172 in Northumberland at 06:20 on Friday 11 December 2015. A 52-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2015
- Friday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.08732, longitude -1.59758, in the NE23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100777515
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1172
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2001.
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 30 December 2001
29 m awayRef 200110C497901
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1171 in Northumberland, 19 October 1990
36 m awayRef 199010C516790
Serious
Car crash on the A1171 in Northumberland, 5 February 1983
37 m awayRef 198310C502483
Slight
Car crash on the A1171 in Northumberland, 16 December 1983
37 m awayRef 198310C518783
Slight
Car crash on the A1172 in Northumberland, 27 October 1980
37 m awayRef 198010B031680
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 23 December 1981
37 m awayRef 198110B038581
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015100777515 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.