A191 crash in Newcastle upon Tyne on 3 June 2007 at 23:14 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van crashed on the A191 in Newcastle upon Tyne at 23:14 on Sunday 3 June 2007. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 2007
- Sunday, 23:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96962, longitude -1.69114, in the NE15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Benwell, Scotswood & Denton Burn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 6UW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100374007
- Council area
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 191
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 November 1999.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A191 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 18 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199910F431899
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A69 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 8 August 1984
14 m awayRef 198410B411584
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A191 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 18 March 1993
20 m awayRef 199310B404593
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A191 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 December 1993
20 m awayRef 199310B414993
Slight
Car crash on the A69 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 15 January 1983
22 m awayRef 198310B400683
Slight
Lorry crash on the A6085 in Newcastle upon Tyne, 30 September 1986
28 m awayRef 198610B416686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
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 2007100374007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle upon Tyne road accident statistics for 2007.