A167 crash in Gateshead on 16 July 2001 at 17:34 involving a Peugeot Vivacity motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2001
- Monday, 17:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Vivacity
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87896, longitude -1.57557, in the DH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birtley. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Lodge, County Durham, DH3 2BP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200110K262001
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 23 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A6127 in Gateshead, 23 December 1981
At the same spotRef 198110F067381
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 20 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199810K071198
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A167 in County Durham, 13 April 2012
4 m awayRef 201211NG09842
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 19 July 2015
4 m awayRef 2015100467615
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A167 in County Durham, 8 November 2012
4 m awayRef 201211NG27482
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 8 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025101587024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Vivacity
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 100 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Vivacity)
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 200110K262001 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 2001.