A167 crash in Gateshead on 6 June 2007 at 18:00 involving a Suzuki GSX 600 motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki GSX 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A167 in Gateshead at 18:00 on Wednesday 6 June 2007. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSX 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 2007
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki GSX 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96189, longitude -1.59874, in the NE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridges, Gateshead, NE8 1PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100392307
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 167
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A692 in Gateshead, 22 November 1981
10 m awayRef 198110F060181
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A6127 in Gateshead, 10 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198010F026980
Slight
Car crash on the A692 in Gateshead, 8 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198710D109887
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A167 in Gateshead, 10 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199810J007498
Slight
Car crash on the A6127 in Gateshead, 2 August 1988
14 m awayRef 198810D116688
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on the A184 in Gateshead, 6 February 2015
18 m awayRef 2015100081015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSX 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSX 600)
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 2007100392307 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.