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C road crash in Gateshead NE11 on 10 March 1998 at 19:45 involving a Renault 5

A car and a Renault 5 were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 19:45 on Tuesday 10 March 1998. The 21-year-old male driver of the Renault 5 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
10 Mar 1998
Tuesday, 19:45
Vehicles
2
Car and Renault 5
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95581, longitude -1.67393, in the NE11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199810K015198
Council area
Gateshead
Police force
Northumbria

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
1

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 14 July 2011.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact

  • Vehicle 2: Renault 5

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,397 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    12 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 5)

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 199810K015198 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 1998.