A695 crash in Gateshead on 14 November 2014 at 13:37 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on the A695 in Gateshead at 13:37 on Friday 14 November 2014. The 25-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2014
- Friday, 13:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.96648, longitude -1.77011, in the NE40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ryton, Crookhill & Stella, Gateshead, NE40 3LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100679414
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 695
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6315
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2024.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 3 December 2024
1 m awayRef 2024101525275
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 16 November 2014
3 m awayRef 2014100693214
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 26 July 2011
4 m awayRef 2011100423111
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 24 December 2002
4 m awayRef 2002100579602
Slight
Car crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 10 December 2001
4 m awayRef 200110K478301
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A695 in Gateshead, 9 March 2002
6 m awayRef 200210K089802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2014100679414 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.