Serious B6317 crash in Gateshead on 31 July 2005 at 02:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B6317 in Gateshead at 02:15 on Sunday 31 July 2005. A 33-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jul 2005
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97089, longitude -1.7344, in the NE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ryton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ryton, Crookhill & Stella, Gateshead, NE40 3EW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005100576405
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6317
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 2 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199310D311393
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 18 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005100139505
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 9 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003100551203
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6317 in Gateshead, 2 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004100798404
Slight
Car crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 26 June 1983
14 m awayRef 198310D310583
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Gateshead, 16 December 2002
14 m awayRef 2002100543302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2005100576405 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 2005.