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Serious unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR2 on 1 January 1985 at 05:00 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 05:00 on Tuesday 1 January 1985. A 25-year-old male passenger, a 30-year-old male passenger and a 27-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Jan 1985
Tuesday, 05:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
3
3 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89743, longitude -1.38282, in the SR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198510F200185
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2014.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 198510F200185 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 1985.