A1018 crash in South Tyneside on 3 May 1997 at 17:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A1018 in South Tyneside at 17:40 on Saturday 3 May 1997. A 31-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1997
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94647, longitude -1.39424, in the SR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199710L012297
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1018
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1299
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1018 in South Tyneside, 16 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199010E108290
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A1018 in South Tyneside, 30 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199710L004297
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A1018 in South Tyneside, 26 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199410L023394
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1018 in South Tyneside, 28 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200110L037501
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A1018 in South Tyneside, 21 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199410L034594
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Tyneside, 1 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198710E202787
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 199710L012297 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.