A188 crash in North Tyneside on 22 October 2005 at 15:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on the A188 in North Tyneside at 15:30 on Saturday 22 October 2005. The 32-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2005
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.01107, longitude -1.58011, in the NE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longbenton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longbenton & Benton, North Tyneside, NE12 8AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005100818205
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 188
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2008.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 21 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008100281808
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 7 August 2007
At the same spotRef 2007100546207
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 27 January 2019
4 m awayRef 2019100812266
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 21 November 2003
10 m awayRef 2003101001403
Serious
Bus crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 14 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025101668902
Slight
Leyland crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 14 July 1993
14 m awayRef 199310C311993
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2005100818205 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 2005.