C road crash in South Tyneside NE33 on 19 December 1987 at 23:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in South Tyneside at 23:50 on Saturday 19 December 1987. A 20-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1987
- Saturday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97527, longitude -1.44177, in the NE33 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
- 198710E119787
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 December 1990.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in South Tyneside, 22 December 1990
20 m awayRef 199010E120490
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B1302 in South Tyneside, 13 August 2002
22 m awayRef 2002100117202
Serious
Taxi crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside, 11 February 2017
26 m awayRef 2017100189407
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B1302 in South Tyneside, 19 December 2004
32 m awayRef 2004101077904
Serious
Audi 80 crash on the B1302 in South Tyneside, 14 May 1995
36 m awayRef 199510L013595
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B1302 in South Tyneside, 11 June 2025
49 m awayRef 2025101603362
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198710E119787 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.