A183 crash in South Tyneside on 28 February 2003 at 10:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A183 in South Tyneside at 10:00 on Friday 28 February 2003. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2003
- Friday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.99905, longitude -1.42986, in the NE33 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beacon & Bents, South Tyneside, NE33 2HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100214003
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 183
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1303
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 2008.
Serious
Renault Modus crash on the A183 in South Tyneside, 1 January 2008
At the same spotRef 2008100000908
Fatal
Hyundai i10 crash on the A183 in South Tyneside, 14 August 2022
9 m awayRef 2022101218346
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A183 in South Tyneside, 23 November 2015
10 m awayRef 2015100753715
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A183 in South Tyneside, 14 January 2001
10 m awayRef 200110L016601
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A183 in South Tyneside, 8 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199110E118991
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A183 in South Tyneside, 26 August 2018
13 m awayRef 2018100325225
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2003100214003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 2003.