Serious A1290 crash in Sunderland on 6 November 2014 at 08:45 involving a Fiat 500
A car and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A1290 in Sunderland at 08:45 on Thursday 6 November 2014. The 41-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured and a 16-year-old female passenger in the car and a 39-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2014
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91847, longitude -1.40059, in the SR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick, Sunderland, SR5 2DR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sunderland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014100750014
- Council area
- Sunderland
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1290
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2000.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1290 in Sunderland, 11 November 2000
16 m awayRef 200010M426700
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B1289 in Sunderland, 3 June 1995
16 m awayRef 199510M028695
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A1290 in Sunderland, 15 October 2004
16 m awayRef 2004100831204
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 17 September 1988
16 m awayRef 198810F310788
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A1290 in Sunderland, 18 May 2007
21 m awayRef 2007100341707
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Sunderland, 9 August 1990
21 m awayRef 199010F313190
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2014100750014 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 2014.