B6315 crash in Gateshead on 13 July 1995 at 21:35 involving a Fiat Cinquecento
A Fiat Cinquecento crashed on the B6315 in Gateshead at 21:35 on Thursday 13 July 1995. The 18-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1995
- Thursday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Cinquecento
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92023, longitude -1.75456, in the NE39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rowlands Gill.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199510K033695
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6315
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 7 June 2004
10 m awayRef 2004100449804
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 10 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199710K018597
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 10 August 2003
10 m awayRef 2003100674103
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 5 August 2022
12 m awayRef 2022101206615
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 25 November 1982
14 m awayRef 198210D319082
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6315 in Gateshead, 8 July 2002
14 m awayRef 2002100014002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Cinquecento)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Cinquecento)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199510K033695 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 1995.