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Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR2 on 23 December 1983 at 23:05 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 23:05 on Friday 23 December 1983. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Dec 1983
Friday, 23:05
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89469, longitude -1.37335, in the SR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198310F229683
Council area
Sunderland
Police force
Northumbria

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 198310F229683 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 1983.