Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE39 on 28 December 2011 at 16:49 involving a Fiat Doblo
A Fiat Doblo, a Seat Altea and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 16:49 on Wednesday 28 December 2011. The 47-year-old male driver of the Seat Altea was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Doblo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91543, longitude -1.77143, in the NE39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011100782811
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2008.
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Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 14 September 2009
94 m awayRef 2009100634609
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 13 July 1988
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Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 30 May 2013
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 4 August 2000
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Altea
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Altea)
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 2011100782811 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 2011.