A1231 crash in Sunderland on 18 December 1990 at 17:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1231 in Sunderland at 17:55 on Tuesday 18 December 1990. The 38-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1990
- Tuesday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90261, longitude -1.53556, in the NE37 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199010F429190
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1231
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 12 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198710F408687
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 28 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200010O232300
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 22 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025101658280
Serious
Car crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 30 January 1984
14 m awayRef 198410F402484
Slight
MAN crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 19 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199710O020797
Slight
Volvo crash on the A1231 in Sunderland, 7 May 2024
18 m awayRef 2024101440108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199010F429190 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 1990.