A1018 crash in Sunderland on 8 July 2007 at 01:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1018 in Sunderland at 01:10 on Sunday 8 July 2007. The 20-year-old male driver, a 22-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2007
- Sunday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87145, longitude -1.35967, in the SR2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ryhope, Sunderland, SR2 0SA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100465107
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1018
- 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
- 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
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1997.
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 8 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199710N054397
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 23 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199710N069497
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 15 December 1993
22 m awayRef 199310F219593
Slight
Van crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 4 November 1983
22 m awayRef 198310F224483
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 9 November 2002
36 m awayRef 2002100411702
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1018 in Sunderland, 20 August 1994
50 m awayRef 199410N016094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2007100465107 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.