Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE16 on 1 March 2008 at 17:15 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 17:15 on Saturday 1 March 2008. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 1 Mar 2008
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9518, longitude -1.67988, in the NE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whickham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whickham North & Swalwell, Gateshead, NE16 3AS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008100157608
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 1996.
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Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 17 July 1992
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Serious
Volvo 740 crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 5 March 1996
95 m awayRef 199610K012696
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 16 January 1991
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2008100157608 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 2008.