B6395 crash in Northumberland on 24 December 2015 at 14:18 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B6395 in Northumberland at 14:18 on Thursday 24 December 2015. The 46-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 14:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96118, longitude -1.8381, in the NE42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prudhoe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prudhoe South, Northumberland, NE42 5DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100838415
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6395
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1994.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the B6395 in Northumberland, 29 July 1994
5 m awayRef 199410B015794
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the B6395 in Northumberland, 10 June 2018
9 m awayRef 2018100300077
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 20 December 2010
9 m awayRef 2010100808710
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B6395 in Northumberland, 16 November 2008
13 m awayRef 2008100820908
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A695 in Northumberland, 14 February 1991
13 m awayRef 199110A402991
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B6395 in Northumberland, 16 February 2002
13 m awayRef 200210B074902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2015100838415 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.