Unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE21 on 14 August 2015 at 15:40 involving a Honda XR125L motorcycle
A Honda XR125L motorcycle and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 15:40 on Friday 14 August 2015. The 27-year-old male rider of the Honda XR125L motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2015
- Friday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda XR125L and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.95333, longitude -1.71815, in the NE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blaydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winlaton & High Spen, Gateshead, NE21 6PF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100483615
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 2013.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 11 December 2013
8 m awayRef 2013100701313
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 7 May 2014
8 m awayRef 2014100246514
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 29 March 2004
12 m awayRef 2004100251304
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 24 July 2009
12 m awayRef 2009100482809
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 12 November 2006
19 m awayRef 2006100889206
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 21 April 1979
38 m awayRef 197910F019279
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda XR125L
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda XR125L)
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 2015100483615 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 2015.