Skip to main content
CrashStats

Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR6 on 29 May 2009 at 18:20 involving a Ford Focus

A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 18:20 on Friday 29 May 2009. A 65-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 May 2009
Friday, 18:20
Vehicles
1
Ford Focus
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91908, longitude -1.37716, in the SR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roker, Sunderland, SR6 0DA area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2009100349909
Council area
Sunderland
Police force
Northumbria
Police attended the scene
Yes

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
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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
12%
Estimated chance it was slight
88%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Focus

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years
    Engine capacity
    1,596 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 2009100349909 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 2009.