A194 crash in South Tyneside on 13 March 1987 at 18:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A194 in South Tyneside at 18:50 on Friday 13 March 1987. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1987
- Friday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9787, longitude -1.44532, in the NE34 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198710E104387
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 194
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1983.
Slight
Van crash on the A194 in South Tyneside, 31 August 1983
10 m awayRef 198310E112083
Slight
Car crash on the A194 in South Tyneside, 21 September 1981
14 m awayRef 198110G030781
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A194 in South Tyneside, 16 February 2003
20 m awayRef 2003100150203
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A194 in South Tyneside, 12 September 2025
27 m awayRef 2025101646009
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A194 in South Tyneside, 6 February 1993
36 m awayRef 199310E102093
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A194 in South Tyneside, 22 March 2019
38 m awayRef 2019100825646
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198710E104387 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 1987.