Unclassified road crash in South Tyneside NE34 on 14 December 1987 at 13:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Tyneside at 13:05 on Monday 14 December 1987. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1987
- Monday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96224, longitude -1.4407, in the NE34 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198710E217487
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, 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 198710E217487 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.