B1318 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 31 January 2001 at 15:25 involving a Volvo 480
A car and a Volvo 480 were involved in a crash on the B1318 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 15:25 on Wednesday 31 January 2001. The 25-year-old male driver of the Volvo 480 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
- 31 Jan 2001
- Wednesday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo 480
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98227, longitude -1.61886, in the NE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Monument, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200110D040501
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1318
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2016.
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Audi Q3 crash on the B1318 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 30 November 2016
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Renault Megane crash on the B1318 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 11 November 1998
14 m awayRef 199810D092498
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Renault Clio crash on the B1600 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 28 September 2007
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 480
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 480)
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 200110D040501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 2001.