C road crash in Gateshead NE40 on 15 September 2014 at 19:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Gateshead at 19:20 on Monday 15 September 2014. The 39-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2014
- Monday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96069, longitude -1.75448, in the NE40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100544814
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 January 1983.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 25 January 1983
10 m awayRef 198310D301883
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Gateshead, 8 November 1997
28 m awayRef 199710K061997
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Gateshead, 1 November 2011
53 m awayRef 2011100634311
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Gateshead, 27 February 1998
80 m awayRef 199810K013198
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Gateshead, 24 March 1986
98 m awayRef 198610D303486
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Gateshead, 31 July 1989
103 m awayRef 198910D314089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2014100544814 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 2014.