B1303 crash in South Tyneside on 27 April 1997 at 14:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle, a Rover 200 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside at 14:45 on Sunday 27 April 1997. The 37-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 1997
- Sunday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.99466, longitude -1.43744, in the NE33 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199710L011397
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1303
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1992.
Slight
Leyland crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside, 18 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199210E104792
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside, 31 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025101695959
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Tyneside, 24 January 1987
28 m awayRef 198710E101387
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Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside, 11 September 2001
36 m awayRef 200110L329901
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Nissan Sunny crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside, 25 June 2001
42 m awayRef 200110L234001
Slight
Transbus Int crash on the B1303 in South Tyneside, 17 April 2011
54 m awayRef 2011100218111
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 199710L011397 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 1997.