C road crash in Gateshead NE11 on 24 March 2007 at 21:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Gateshead at 21:00 on Saturday 24 March 2007. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2007
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.93239, longitude -1.61886, in the NE11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lobley Hill & Bensham, Gateshead, NE11 0EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100197807
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1995.
Slight
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10 m awayRef 199510K037095
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10 m awayRef 200010K082100
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Gateshead, 16 May 1998
14 m awayRef 199810K028998
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 19 September 1987
20 m awayRef 198710D118087
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Gateshead, 28 March 2001
20 m awayRef 200110K118601
Serious
MAN crash on a C road in Gateshead, 25 November 2013
22 m awayRef 2013100675113
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2007100197807 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 2007.