A182 crash in Sunderland on 28 December 2009 at 12:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A182 in Sunderland at 12:50 on Monday 28 December 2009. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2009
- Monday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89327, longitude -1.53394, in the NE38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009100887309
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 182
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 16 January 1997
22 m awayRef 199710O001097
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 9 October 1993
41 m awayRef 199310F423393
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 28 February 2015
44 m awayRef 2015100112415
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 4 July 1996
51 m awayRef 199610O016496
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 10 May 2025
55 m awayRef 2025101591259
Serious
Car crash on the A182 in Sunderland, 10 July 1980
57 m awayRef 198010H044180
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,195 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2009100887309 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.