Serious A187 crash in North Tyneside on 14 March 2015 at 18:00 involving a Citroen C5
A Citroen C5 hit a pedestrian on the A187 in North Tyneside at 18:00 on Saturday 14 March 2015. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Mar 2015
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.00629, longitude -1.44775, in the NE29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tynemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Shields, North Tyneside, NE29 0DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100140215
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 187
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 143
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A187 in North Tyneside, 10 March 1997
1 m awayRef 199710H009797
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A187 in North Tyneside, 18 March 1997
1 m awayRef 199710H010797
Serious
Car crash on the B143 in North Tyneside, 3 June 1988
1 m awayRef 198810C105688
Fatal
Car crash on the A187 in North Tyneside, 10 February 1980
1 m awayRef 198010C005580
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A187 in North Tyneside, 30 December 1992
1 m awayRef 199210C114392
Slight
Car crash on the A187 in North Tyneside, 28 April 1987
9 m awayRef 198710C104387
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2015100140215 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 2015.