Serious C road crash in North Tyneside NE30 on 14 April 2008 at 12:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in North Tyneside at 12:50 on Monday 14 April 2008. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Apr 2008
- Monday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.01519, longitude -1.44058, in the NE30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tynemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tynemouth, North Tyneside, NE30 4AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008100262608
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2019.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 29 May 2019
11 m awayRef 2019100843475
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Tyneside, 7 June 1989
22 m awayRef 198910C106989
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Tyneside, 15 August 1980
54 m awayRef 198010C034980
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Tyneside, 28 February 1987
61 m awayRef 198710C102087
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on a C road in North Tyneside, 16 December 2003
71 m awayRef 2003101097203
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in North Tyneside, 20 October 1997
73 m awayRef 199710H043297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2008100262608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 2008.