Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR1 on 29 March 2003 at 00:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 00:50 on Saturday 29 March 2003. A 41-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 29 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90881, longitude -1.37108, in the SR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100268203
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- B
- Second road number
- 1293
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2003100268203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sunderland road accident statistics for 2003.