Unclassified road crash in Gateshead DH3 on 1 January 2004 at 15:32 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Nissan Micra and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 15:32 on Thursday 1 January 2004. The 19-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 15:32
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90304, longitude -1.57469, in the DH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birtley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birtley North & Lamesley, Gateshead, DH3 1PZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004100002204
- Council area
- Gateshead
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 11 April 1995
82 m awayRef 199510K017095
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 9 July 1990
94 m awayRef 199010D114890
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 21 August 1990
98 m awayRef 199010D118090
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 27 January 1979
100 m awayRef 197910F004779
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 21 November 1987
100 m awayRef 198710D124487
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 21 December 1994
120 m awayRef 199410K038194
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 206)
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 2004100002204 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 2004.