A183 crash in Sunderland on 29 April 1998 at 15:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A183 in Sunderland at 15:30 on Wednesday 29 April 1998. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 47-year-old female passenger in the Ford Sierra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 1998
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87554, longitude -1.48632, in the DH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shiney Row and Penshaw.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199810O012698
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 183
- 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
- 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 1 February 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A183 in Sunderland, 1 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199810O003798
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A183 in Sunderland, 2 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199710O005697
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A183 in Sunderland, 8 May 2005
14 m awayRef 2005100332905
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A183 in Sunderland, 11 May 2016
18 m awayRef 2016100106691
Slight
Kia Sorento crash on the A183 in Sunderland, 18 December 2025
18 m awayRef 2025101685016
Fatal
Van crash on the A183 in Sunderland, 9 September 1983
22 m awayRef 198310F414783
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- 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 199810O012698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 1998.