Serious unclassified road crash in Northumberland TD15 on 1 January 2025 at 00:25 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 00:25 on Wednesday 1 January 2025. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76966, longitude -2.00374, in the TD15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Berwick-upon-Tweed. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berwick East, Northumberland, TD15 2EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101539200
- Council area
- Northumberland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2006.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 65CF crash on a C road in Northumberland, 26 January 2006
7 m awayRef 2006100063506
Serious
Kia Pride crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 29 September 2002
15 m awayRef 2002100249802
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 18 October 2002
15 m awayRef 2002100317702
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 12 June 1996
16 m awayRef 199610A007996
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Northumberland, 14 April 1984
30 m awayRef 198410A205084
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Northumberland, 3 May 1985
30 m awayRef 198510A206785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025101539200 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 2025.