A1061 crash in Northumberland on 16 October 2015 at 15:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A1061 in Northumberland at 15:45 on Friday 16 October 2015. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2015
- Friday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.10186, longitude -1.55178, in the NE24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100782515
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2008.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 16 December 2008
26 m awayRef 2008100911508
Slight
Yamaha NXC 125 crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 1 July 2008
32 m awayRef 2008100458408
Slight
Car crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 15 February 1988
67 m awayRef 198810C502788
Serious
Volkswagen Urban crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 19 July 2020
68 m awayRef 2020100965602
Slight
Iveco crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 26 January 2009
69 m awayRef 2009100038409
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A1061 in Northumberland, 27 October 2025
91 m awayRef 2025101660111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2015100782515 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.