Serious C road crash in South Tyneside NE34 on 22 December 1990 at 22:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in South Tyneside at 22:40 on Saturday 22 December 1990. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 1990
- Saturday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97527, longitude -1.44208, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199010E120490
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2004.
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199010E120490 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 1990.