Unclassified road crash in Sunderland NE38 on 18 January 2012 at 19:20 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland at 19:20 on Wednesday 18 January 2012. A 17-year-old male passenger in the Citroen Saxo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2012
- Wednesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90529, longitude -1.50355, in the NE38 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Washington East, Sunderland, NE38 8HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012100057012
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1231
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1992.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2012100057012 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 2012.