A196 crash in Northumberland on 29 December 2017 at 10:40 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 crashed on the A196 in Northumberland at 10:40 on Friday 29 December 2017. The 72-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2017
- Friday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.15888, longitude -1.60466, in the NE62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stakeford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stakeford, Northumberland, NE62 5EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017100253117
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 196
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1993.
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on the A196 in Northumberland, 25 September 1993
13 m awayRef 199310A611293
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A196 in Northumberland, 5 January 2005
14 m awayRef 2005100005505
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A196 in Northumberland, 14 September 2015
28 m awayRef 2015100561115
Slight
Car crash on the A196 in Northumberland, 15 November 2017
39 m awayRef 2017100240190
Serious
Car crash on the A196 in Northumberland, 21 January 2022
39 m awayRef 2022101136129
Slight
Van crash on the A196 in Northumberland, 28 April 1986
49 m awayRef 198610A605386
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2017100253117 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 2017.