A68 crash in Northumberland on 4 September 2022 at 11:45 involving a Keeway K-Light motorcycle
A Keeway K-Light motorcycle crashed on the A68 in Northumberland at 11:45 on Sunday 4 September 2022. The 42-year-old male rider was 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
- 4 Sep 2022
- Sunday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Keeway K-Light
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9484, longitude -1.95627, in the NE44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022101215357
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2015.
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 27 July 2015
7 m awayRef 2015100486915
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 4 January 1981
8 m awayRef 198110A001081
Slight
Volvo crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 5 October 1999
8 m awayRef 199910B366299
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 19 May 2012
9 m awayRef 2012100286812
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in Northumberland, 20 October 1996
12 m awayRef 199610B021196
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A695 in Northumberland, 8 July 1989
12 m awayRef 198910A415589
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Keeway K-Light
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway K-Light)
- 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 2022101215357 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 2022.