Serious unclassified road crash in Northumberland NE22 on 22 November 2025 at 17:57 involving a Ford Fiesta
A motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland at 17:57 on Saturday 22 November 2025. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 17:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.14023, longitude -1.56608, in the NE22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bedlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sleekburn, Northumberland, NE22 7HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Northumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025101672297
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Northumberland, 2 June 1980
14 m awayRef 198010B014780
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Northumberland, 18 April 1993
14 m awayRef 199310A604393
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on a C road in Northumberland, 12 December 2004
22 m awayRef 2004101053604
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Northumberland, 28 December 2000
23 m awayRef 200010C509200
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Northumberland, 17 September 2020
25 m awayRef 2020100983859
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on a C road in Northumberland, 22 March 1995
28 m awayRef 199510C010495
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 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: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025101672297 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.