A19 crash in Sunderland on 13 March 1987 at 10:30 involving a lorry
A lorry and a van were involved in a crash on the A19 in Sunderland at 10:30 on Friday 13 March 1987. The 35-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1987
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.86095, longitude -1.43883, in the SR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198710F404387
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2018.
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 20 September 2018
11 m awayRef 2018100335324
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 21 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025101686305
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 4 November 2010
28 m awayRef 2010100687010
Serious
Van crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 8 December 1985
32 m awayRef 198510F422785
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 1 April 2011
36 m awayRef 2011100190111
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 3 November 2014
44 m awayRef 2014100678714
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198710F404387 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 1987.