Serious A19 crash in Sunderland on 26 June 2010 at 20:20 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A19 in Sunderland at 20:20 on Saturday 26 June 2010. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jun 2010
- Saturday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.86133, longitude -1.4399, in the SR3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herrington & Newbottle, Sunderland, SR3 3RD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010100375410
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2013.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 15 December 2013
14 m awayRef 2013100704813
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 3 August 2015
58 m awayRef 2015100536715
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 21 December 2025
64 m awayRef 2025101686305
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 31 March 2009
71 m awayRef 2009100207409
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 20 September 2018
76 m awayRef 2018100335324
Serious
Car crash on the A19 in Sunderland, 13 May 1979
78 m awayRef 197910H029779
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2010100375410 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 2010.