Unclassified road crash in North Tyneside NE29 on 1 August 2003 at 22:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Tyneside at 22:00 on Friday 1 August 2003. All five casualties were slightly injured. One of them was a pedestrian.
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
- 1 Aug 2003
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02414, longitude -1.47424, in the NE29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tynemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the New York & Murton, North Tyneside, NE29 8JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003100652803
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- 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
- 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, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 July 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 2 July 1980
41 m awayRef 198010C026580
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 20 September 1990
41 m awayRef 199010C112390
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 7 September 2021
66 m awayRef 2021101087058
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 19 December 2018
66 m awayRef 2018100351854
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 27 October 1996
100 m awayRef 199610H042896
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 20 February 2015
127 m awayRef 2015100094615
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2003100652803 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 2003.