Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR2 on 24 August 2005 at 14:40 involving a Renault Megane
A bicycle and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 14:40 on Wednesday 24 August 2005. The 15-year-old male cyclist was 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 Aug 2005
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88325, longitude -1.36493, in the SR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Grangetown, Sunderland, SR2 9NE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005100650405
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- A
- Second road number
- 1018
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 September 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 1 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198410F221084
Serious
Car crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 12 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199210F215092
Serious
Volvo crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 18 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199110F205591
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the B1522 in Sunderland, 15 May 2025
10 m awayRef 2025101590900
Slight
Car crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 4 October 1986
14 m awayRef 198610F219286
Slight
Van crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 5 November 1985
14 m awayRef 198510F226085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2005100650405 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 2005.