Unclassified road crash in South Tyneside NE33 on 6 December 2008 at 22:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Tyneside at 22:20 on Saturday 6 December 2008. A 42-year-old male 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
- 6 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98938, longitude -1.4364, in the NE33 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Shields. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beacon & Bents, South Tyneside, NE33 4NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008100889308
- Council area
- South Tyneside
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 December 2007.
Serious
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in South Tyneside, 21 December 2007
At the same spotRef 2007100921607
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the B1301 in South Tyneside, 6 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025101638192
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Tyneside, 1 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199310E109493
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B1301 in South Tyneside, 24 November 2020
16 m awayRef 2020101001296
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in South Tyneside, 27 March 2007
20 m awayRef 2007100213207
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Tyneside, 27 December 1988
22 m awayRef 198810E121888
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2008100889308 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Tyneside road accident statistics for 2008.