Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE9 on 24 July 2004 at 15:42 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Volvo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 15:42 on Saturday 24 July 2004. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 43-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 24 Jul 2004
- Saturday, 15:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Volvo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94677, longitude -1.59234, in the NE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deckham, Gateshead, NE8 4AR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004100590904
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 1296
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1296 in Gateshead, 2 August 2010
10 m awayRef 2010100462310
Slight
Car crash on the B1296 in Gateshead, 4 September 1988
14 m awayRef 198810D119588
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 16 March 2025
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 23 December 1984
20 m awayRef 198410D129384
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B1296 in Gateshead, 8 September 1999
22 m awayRef 199910J339499
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1296 in Gateshead, 9 May 1999
22 m awayRef 199910J160699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,319 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2004100590904 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.