A193 crash in North Tyneside on 25 July 2015 at 19:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A193 in North Tyneside at 19:30 on Saturday 25 July 2015. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 2015
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.0212, longitude -1.43344, in the NE30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tynemouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tynemouth, North Tyneside, NE30 4AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100425315
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 193
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A193 in North Tyneside, 10 April 1984
5 m awayRef 198410C103384
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A193 in North Tyneside, 12 December 2000
9 m awayRef 200010H483100
Slight
Mazda 121 crash on the A193 in North Tyneside, 20 April 1999
9 m awayRef 199910H142399
Serious
Van crash on the A193 in North Tyneside, 8 May 1981
31 m awayRef 198110C021381
Slight
Car crash on the A193 in North Tyneside, 15 December 1979
33 m awayRef 197910C058479
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the A193 in North Tyneside, 12 July 1992
36 m awayRef 199210C109092
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2015100425315 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.