Serious A68 crash in Northumberland on 14 January 2018 at 15:15 involving a Ford Transit van
A motorcycle, a Ford Transit van and a car were involved in a crash on the A68 in Northumberland at 15:15 on Sunday 14 January 2018. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jan 2018
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.03219, longitude -2.03178, in the NE19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100258756
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a fatal crash on 1 October 2023.
Fatal
Seat Leon crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 1 October 2023
13 m awayRef 2023101367499
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 19 April 2019
13 m awayRef 2019100834300
Slight
Kia Sorento crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 10 October 2015
16 m awayRef 2015100623815
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 7 April 1997
19 m awayRef 199710B007597
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 13 February 2016
75 m awayRef 2016100126416
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 11 July 1992
89 m awayRef 199210A412392
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018100258756 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 2018.