Serious B1405 crash in Sunderland on 20 March 2007 at 09:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on the B1405 in Sunderland at 09:20 on Tuesday 20 March 2007. The 36-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Mar 2007
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88699, longitude -1.39309, in the SR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tunstall & Humbledon, Sunderland, SR3 1LW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100312407
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1405
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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 28 November 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1405 in Sunderland, 28 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003101046403
Slight
Bus crash on the B1405 in Sunderland, 25 September 2025
5 m awayRef 2025101661535
Serious
Van crash on the B1405 in Sunderland, 17 August 2014
7 m awayRef 2014100489614
Slight
Scania crash on the B1405 in Sunderland, 23 July 2024
7 m awayRef 2024101471979
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on a C road in Sunderland, 9 November 1994
10 m awayRef 199410N021194
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Sunderland, 31 May 1981
10 m awayRef 198110H035281
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
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 2007100312407 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 2007.