B1299 crash in South Tyneside on 17 December 1996 at 07:25 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside at 07:25 on Tuesday 17 December 1996. The 34-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1996
- Tuesday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94456, longitude -1.42737, in the NE36 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Boldon and West Boldon.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199610L040296
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1299
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 184
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2020.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 23 January 2020
3 m awayRef 2020100923243
Slight
Bus crash on the B1299 in South Tyneside, 26 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198710E210387
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A184 in South Tyneside, 2 October 2021
22 m awayRef 2021101137305
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A184 in South Tyneside, 25 April 1996
22 m awayRef 199610L013196
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A184 in South Tyneside, 7 January 2017
25 m awayRef 2017100207662
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A184 in South Tyneside, 16 December 1997
28 m awayRef 199710L042997
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 199610L040296 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 1996.