A694 crash in Gateshead on 16 November 1997 at 20:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A694 in Gateshead at 20:15 on Sunday 16 November 1997. The 21-year-old female driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 1997
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9143, longitude -1.75647, 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
- 199710K065697
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 694
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A694 in Gateshead, 3 December 1985
36 m awayRef 198510D318685
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A694 in Gateshead, 13 December 2018
46 m awayRef 2018100350743
Slight
Mazda CX5 crash on the A694 in Gateshead, 28 June 2017
49 m awayRef 2017100196132
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A694 in Gateshead, 16 May 1983
58 m awayRef 198310D307283
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A694 in Gateshead, 20 May 1995
64 m awayRef 199510K025895
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A694 in Gateshead, 19 January 2018
77 m awayRef 2018100260047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 199710K065697 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 1997.