C road crash in Gateshead NE10 on 30 March 2007 at 17:17 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 17:17 on Friday 30 March 2007. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2007
- Friday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94449, longitude -1.55724, in the NE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Felling, Gateshead, NE10 0PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100215007
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 4 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198910D204889
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Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 3 December 2020
11 m awayRef 2020101004094
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Gateshead, 1 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200010J128100
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 23 October 1988
22 m awayRef 198810D209288
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Gateshead, 27 January 1998
22 m awayRef 199810J004798
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 27 April 2023
28 m awayRef 2023101302237
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2007100215007 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.