Unclassified road crash in Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 on 28 February 2003 at 14:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne at 14:45 on Friday 28 February 2003. A 28-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 28 Feb 2003
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98706, longitude -1.65882, in the NE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blakelaw & Cowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5 3NL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100219103
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 7 September 1983
14 m awayRef 198310B309583
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 March 1981
14 m awayRef 198110E010681
Serious
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 4 March 1997
28 m awayRef 199710F018997
Slight
Car crash on the A696 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 3 August 1986
36 m awayRef 198610B411786
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 16 August 1996
67 m awayRef 199610F062896
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle upon Tyne, 26 September 2025
80 m awayRef 2025101647489
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2003100219103 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 2003.