A197 crash in Northumberland on 31 December 2015 at 11:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
Four vehicles, including a car and a Vauxhall Corsa, were involved in a crash on the A197 in Northumberland at 11:00 on Thursday 31 December 2015. The 51-year-old male driver of the car and the 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Corsa and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.18172, longitude -1.61614, in the NE61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100841515
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 197
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2021.
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 5 February 2021
9 m awayRef 2021101019742
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 5 April 2015
25 m awayRef 2015100192615
Serious
Peugeot Expert crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 19 September 2005
44 m awayRef 2005100729905
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 10 August 2004
52 m awayRef 2004100657404
Fatal
Car crash on the A197 in Northumberland, 1 April 1983
82 m awayRef 198310A603783
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 15 May 1979
95 m awayRef 197910B013379
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 4: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2015100841515 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.