Unclassified road crash in Sunderland SR5 on 9 May 2010 at 17:05 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 17:05 on Sunday 9 May 2010. A 34-year-old male passenger in the car 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
- 9 May 2010
- Sunday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Vitara and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92467, longitude -1.4164, in the SR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunderland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 5PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010100464610
- Council area
- Sunderland
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 1995.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 10 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199510M006795
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 19 September 1979
32 m awayRef 197910H065679
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 15 November 1989
54 m awayRef 198910F317089
Slight
DS DS4 crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 13 October 2025
59 m awayRef 2025101654166
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 30 October 1991
63 m awayRef 199110F317591
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 17 May 1984
76 m awayRef 198410F306784
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2010100464610 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.