Serious unclassified road crash in Sunderland NE38 on 27 August 1983 at 05:10 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 05:10 on Saturday 27 August 1983. The 42-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Aug 1983
- Saturday, 05:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90137, longitude -1.54197, in the NE38 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198310F414283
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198310F414283 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.