Serious B1327 crash in Northumberland on 21 March 2018 at 09:30 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda hit a pedestrian on the B1327 in Northumberland at 09:30 on Wednesday 21 March 2018. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 2018
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.12432, longitude -1.50491, in the NE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blyth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Croft, Northumberland, NE24 2LP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100278131
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1327
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2000.
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 10 August 2000
5 m awayRef 200010C293800
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 7 February 1997
5 m awayRef 199710C005197
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Northumberland, 2 March 2008
5 m awayRef 2008100153808
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B1327 in Northumberland, 14 December 1996
5 m awayRef 199610C059596
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 12 February 1989
9 m awayRef 198910C502789
Serious
Taxi crash on a C road in Northumberland, 5 April 2016
10 m awayRef 2016100125820
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018100278131 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.