B1340 crash in Northumberland on 14 November 2018 at 17:15 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on the B1340 in Northumberland at 17:15 on Wednesday 14 November 2018. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59103, longitude -1.67283, in the NE68 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018100344477
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1340
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 88 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2003.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 28 March 2003
88 m awayRef 2003100273903
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 19 February 1990
106 m awayRef 199010A203190
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 23 June 1990
154 m awayRef 199010A212190
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 18 September 2017
167 m awayRef 2017100220659
Serious
Car crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 6 August 1983
172 m awayRef 198310A214383
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1340 in Northumberland, 1 June 1989
198 m awayRef 198910A208289
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2018100344477 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.