B6317 crash in Gateshead on 5 February 2003 at 19:40 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the B6317 in Gateshead at 19:40 on Wednesday 5 February 2003. The 52-year-old male driver of the Rover 400 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94549, longitude -1.67306, in the NE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whickham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whickham North & Swalwell, Gateshead, NE16 4LX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100120603
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6317
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 December 2017.
Serious
Optare crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 22 December 2017
4 m awayRef 2017100252001
Slight
Car crash on the B317 in Gateshead, 30 July 1980
10 m awayRef 198010F040580
Slight
Bedford crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 23 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199310D311193
Slight
Ford Probe crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 6 January 2004
14 m awayRef 2004100010604
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 23 April 1990
14 m awayRef 199010D305490
Serious
Optare Versa crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 22 November 2024
34 m awayRef 2024101520217
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 2003100120603 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 2003.